Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Select Committee on Social Protection

Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary)

9:30 am

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Yellow Flag programme is funded through the Dormant Accounts Fund, which we manage. Other Departments make their pitches and get allocated funding and those decisions are brought to the Government. Every Department has its own slice of the cake and we manage our piece as it relates to the work we do. I am unsure, but I believe the Yellow Flag programme falls under the Department of Education, which needs to ensure it has funding for the programme. If it is a good programme, we should be keeping it. There should be no-----

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