Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To move on, one of the issues I routinely come across is the lack of funding for youth services, which is an area that yields great benefits when proper investment is made. Is there an objective resource allocation model in place based on factors such as socio-economic circumstances, age and rural or urban location or is funding dependent on Pobal and which organisations are in a position to make an application for funding? How is this done? Is there any prospect of moving towards an objective resource allocation model? It strikes me that what we spend may not be spent in the right areas.

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