Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)

I am going through the recipients. There are lots of worthy recipients of last year's fund. You certainly would not take anything off them that they have been given. That is the problem with initiatives like this. The Minister and I am sure all of us have gone to places in our communities where taking kids off the street is also a safety initiative that is not reflected in something like this. Maybe we can find some way of being a little bit more innovative.

One of the problems I often find is kids paying subscriptions to be part of some sort of youth project, be that any sort of sport you can think of or dancing. Maybe we can find some innovative way that we can make those even smaller but allocate them to any of the groups. We all have an example. It is about finding a way that they can get them that helps to keep young people off the street in some sort of organised setting, be that through the coach or a fund for the subscriptions. That would make a huge difference if we could find some innovative way of doing that.