Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 715: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the division of the southern Health Service Executive that is dealing with the distribution of funding for the establishment of youth cafés as recently announced. [1481/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to provide the information requested by the Deputy. My Office has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

It might also be noted that the National Recreation Policy for Young People, which is to be published in the near future, recognises that Youth Cafés offer great potential for providing a wide range of developmental, educational and information programmes to young people and that the provision of such services within these settings will require a cross-Departmental and inter-Agency collaborative approach through a partnership process.