John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will fund a youth café in Tramore, County Waterford under the auspices of the Tramore Youth Development Project as a pilot project under her new recreation policy for teenagers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4690/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The National Recreation Policy, 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 acknowledges that such services will require a cross-Departmental and inter-Agency collaborative approach through a partnership process.

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 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised 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.