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.