Written answers

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Department of Education and Science

Youth Services

8:00 pm

Photo of Seán Ó FearghaílSeán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 367: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of grant funding her Department has provided to Foróige for the years 2002 to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22342/07]

Photo of Seán HaugheySeán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Foróige receives annual grant-in-aid funding from my Department under the Youth Service Grant Scheme, Special Projects for Youth Scheme and Youth Information Centres Scheme.

The organisation has received total grant-in-aid funding of €26.6million for the years 2002 to 2007 to date. Details of the funding provided are as follows:

Youth Service Grant Scheme
YearGrants-in-aid paid
2002 1,689,850
2003 1,821,952
2004 1,894,830
2005 2,064,667
2006 2,319,001
2007 2,492,926
Special Projects for Youth Scheme
Year Grants-in-aid paid
2002 1,528,473
2003 1,683,200
2004 1,795,591
2005 2,261,881
2006 2,444,838
2007 2,747,453
Youth Information Centres
YearGrants-in-aid paid
2002 323,096
2003 276,143
2004 297,948
2005 370,725
2006 354,395
2007 204,207
Note: Foróige grant-in-aid in respect of one Youth Information Centre has not yet been finalised and is not included in the above total for 2007.

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