Written answers

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Department of Health and Children

Departmental Funding

8:00 pm

Photo of Arthur MorganArthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding given to an organisation (details supplied) by her Department in each of the past four years; for what specific purpose were these allocations made; the checks carried out or audits conducted to ensure property in respect of end-user spending; the reporting system in place in respect of accountability on delivery of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35422/10]

Photo of Barry AndrewsBarry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Children and Youth Services Unit of my Office provides funding to Youth Work Ireland for its youth service provision, through a number of funding programmes. Youth Work Ireland acts as the grant administering agency for distribution of the funding from my Office to the projects, administered by that organisation, under the different schemes. Details of the monies allocated in the past four years are outlined hereunder:

YearSpecial Projects for Youth (SPY)No. of SPY Projects funded through YWIYouth Information Centres (YICs)No. of YICs funded through YWIYouth Service Grant Scheme *
2007â'¬5,298,24349â'¬ 941,75012â'¬2,625,755
2008â'¬5,605,29349â'¬ 965,29412â'¬2,721,399
2009â'¬5,297,00249â'¬ 912,20112â'¬2,471,759
2010â'¬5,191,06249â'¬ 893,95812â'¬2,422,324

* Under the Youth Service Grant Scheme funding is made available to 31 national and major regional voluntary organisations. The continued funding of voluntary youth organisations through the scheme is intended to ensure the emergence, promotion, growth and development of youth organisations with distinctive philosophies and programmes aimed at the social education of young people.

All of the organisations and projects funded under the above schemes/programmes are required to complete a detailed annual report on their activities to my Office. Audited accounts must be provided also in respect of each project/service for the previous financial year and these accounts are examined by the Children and Youth Services Development Unit of my Office.

Question No. 213 answered with Question No. 209.

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