Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 461: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will allow a Youthreach service to be set up in Birr, County Offaly; the reason for the delay in making a decision on the matter; if all necessary information to enable a decision is available to her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27900/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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At present, the Department has approved 109 training places in County Offaly. The vocational education committee has allocated the places under the Youthreach and senior traveller training programmes for early school leavers. These places are distributed by the County Offaly VEC as follows: Youthreach has 25 places in Clara and 25 places in Edenderry; Traveller training has 35 places in Tullamore and 24 in Birr. In addition, there are 35 Youthreach training places approved in Roscrea which is some 12 miles distant from Birr. Training, travel and meal allowances are payable, as necessary, to participants. My Department has no plans to approve funding for a new Youthreach centre in Birr, County Offaly.