Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
That €4 million would cut across the types of initiatives to which we referred in our briefing material and opening statement. It is spent across our dedicated educational support service programmes, the family link workers in the 17 areas, the fostering programme for Travellers and a bursary scheme. On where the funding is dedicated, Foróige in Rathkeale, for example, gets a certain amount of money, as do different projects across the country. Where we have provided laptop education, there is a whole breakdown. The €4 million is a dedicated ring-fenced budget. It includes dormant accounts funding and more mainstream funding.
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