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
Mr. Pat Smyth:
Out of a total figure of about €750 million. We also provide a grant to voluntary agencies. We work with more than 700 voluntary agencies. We pay in excess of €150 million to those agencies across a range of care from supports into schools for school completion programmes - €25 million is put into programmes to support children who are at risk of leaving school - to domestic violence. About €20 million is put into family resource centres, all of which funding is aimed at supporting children who are at risk or are vulnerable or who may come into our care.
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