Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Get Ahead Club is a community-based education charity in north Clondalkin that attempts to achieve educational equality, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It has provided a variety of very valuable services such as breakfast clubs, homework clubs and other developmental and recreational supports and activities since 1994 for about 120 children per year.

Our understanding is that it was never funded directly by Tusla but was indirectly funded through the local school completion programme. Following a decision by Tusla to no longer allow the school completion programme to be used as a conduit, its funding position is unclear. My colleagues and I are trying to establish what the current position is. Is Tusla in a position to engage with the Get Ahead Club to consider funding it into the future because it is vital that this key educational resource for children in our constituency is not lost?

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