Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

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

Youth Work: Discussion

Ms Mary Cunningham:

Obviously, the loss of the European Social Fund has been absolutely massive for a whole range of organisations. There is an eye being kept on PEACE+, which is going to be advertised in the next short while. A very significant amount of that will be going towards children and young people, and specifically youth work as we would understand it. Hopefully that will help. There is a real crisis because the end of the financial year is the end of March and the only commitment that can be given after that is on a month-by-month basis.