Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide funding for Ireland's European Youth Parliamentarians to represent the State at the European International Conference held each year. [32296/12]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The European Youth Parliament Ireland has received funding under the Government's Communicating Europe Initiative for a number of years. A grant of €8,000 was recently approved to EYPI in respect of a range of activities proposed to be held during 2012 and in early 2013 to coincide with our EU Presidency. EYPI sought funding towards the cost of its three regional preliminary conferences in Munster, Connaught/Ulster and Leinster, its National conference and an event on The Irish Presidency and the EU. EYPI did not seek funding towards the cost of participation at the annual European International Conference.