Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

We are engaging and will engage further across government on that because there is a range of interested actors in terms of the overall policy around youth services. The Deputy may have seen that the Minister launched a new national policy framework for children and young people before Christmas which sets out the framework for developing services for children and young people right across government. There are new implementation structures being developed as part of that which involves all of the relevant actors across government. This commitment to a new youth services strategy is one of the commitments made as part of that.