Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will develop services for young people, particularly teenagers in the northside of Dublin; and if she will make this a priority. [10871/07]

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 consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department 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.

In addition, the Deputy might also wish to note that other Government Departments administer a range of services and programmes for young people. These include, for example, the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism which administers the Sports Capital Programme and the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programmes, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs which supports facilities and services for young people in disadvantaged areas through the Young Person's Facilities and Services Fund and the Department of Education and Science which assists the general youth work sector through a variety of youth programmes and services.