Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 331: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reinstate funding to a youth service (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5909/10]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides funding for thirty eight projects in Local Drugs Task Force areas, including the project referred to by the Deputy. These projects, through a variety of programmes and activities, seek, in the main, to encourage young people not to engage in drug-taking. My Department originally took on responsibility for funding these projects through a mainstreaming process, whereby projects on interim funding were assigned to a number of departments and State agencies.

Thirty five of the projects are administered by the three VECs in Dublin City, Dublin County and in Dún Laoghaire, while the remaining three projects are funded directly by my Department. The allocations for the 38 projects over the past three years were as follows: 2007 - €3,621,000 2008 - €3,715,000 2009 - €3,643,000

Arising from Budget 2010, it was decided that funding for these projects was to be reduced to €2,461,000 in 2010. My Department is currently reviewing the implications of this decision for the individual projects concerned.