Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I met members of the group in question with Deputy Murnane O'Connor and they gave an extremely impressive presentation. As the Deputy knows, I provide €128,000 to the group in terms of current spending through Tusla. We will continue to engage with that particular organisation.

In response to Deputy Brady, I absolutely agree that we need to continue to grow the youth budget because it provides incredibly good value for money. It has grown very significantly over the last number of years. I want to do more and will work to do more, both in terms of the delivery of increased levels of investment and in terms of supporting the updating and modernising of funding schemes like the youth services grant scheme. We changed and updated the UBU scheme just before I came into office and that has been extremely successful. We have opened 16 new UBU targeted schemes across the country during my term as Minister.

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