Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding provided to the young people's facilities and services fund each year since its establishment; and if he will provide details on the expansion of the fund to Leinster. [36473/08]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the funding provided each year since 2002 — when responsibility for the Young Peoples Facilities & Services Fund transferred to this Department — are set out in the table.

The figures include funding provided for projects mainstreamed in 2004 and 2006 to the Departments of Education & Science and Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

In relation to the Fund, the Deputy should note that arrangements to give effect to the transfer of the Fund to the Office of the Minister of Children and Youth Affairs (OMCYA) — in line with the Taoiseach's announcement last May — are expected to be completed shortly.

It was also announced earlier this year that the Fund is being extended to 4 new towns in Leinster — Arklow, Dundalk, Wexford and Athlone. The Deputy will appreciate that this will now be a matter for the OMCYA to progress in the context of funding available to them for 2009.