Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Mary Cunningham:
A small capital fund was established last year for youth organisations to apply to. The officials in the Department of youth affairs fought really hard to establish the principle of a capital fund as part of the budget funding, but it is a small amount of money. You are not going to build an extension with it. You will probably be able to replace equipment or that sort of thing. The argument we are making is that, within the youth affairs funding, there will never be significant infrastructure capital funding and, therefore, that needs to be in the national development plan.
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