Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Youth Work: Discussion

Professor Maurice Devlin:

Yes. There are all kinds of other associated problems around exchange opportunities that were there and so on. The Senator is absolutely right about that. There is a terrible crisis of funding for youth organisations in the North now across the board. That is again related to the political stasis but also the financial climate whereby they are being basically drip-fed funding on a month-by-month basis. It is a truly shocking crisis. Maybe Ms Cunningham could give a more informed and broader response to the question because of the NYCI's North-South partnership.