Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

In this regard, my Department is co-operating with the Department of Social and Family Affairs, the Office of the Minister for Children and FÁS in testing the non-income activation proposals in Coolock in Dublin and Kilkenny.

My Department also received an application on behalf of the group in question to be considered for funding in 2008 under my Department's special projects for youth scheme in the youth work sector, which comes under the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Haughey. Pending completion of the 2008 funding allocations process for the youth work sector and owing to budgetary constraints and the high level of existing commitments in the youth work sector, I am not in a position to make any commitments with regard to funding for the group in question on the youth work side.

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