Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Independent)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will increase staffing and funding to centres (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21346/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Youth Affairs Section of my Department currently provides grant-in-aid to the Clonmel Youth Resource Centre and Clonmel Youth Information Centre.

Funding for the Clonmel Youth Resource Centre is made available under the Special Projects for Youth scheme and in 2005 was in receipt of €59,713 from my Department. Funding is made available for the Waterford Regional Youth Information Service, which includes Clonmel, under the Youth Information Centre programme. In 2005 €40,412, which included €20,000 once-off funding, was made available to the service.

My Department is at present giving consideration to applications made for youth work funding in 2006, having regard to the overall level of financial resources available for the youth work sector.