Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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505. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocations to all youth projects in Dublin funded by her Department and administered by the City of Dublin Youth Services Board for the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20107/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Youth Affairs Unit of my Department provides a range of funding schemes, programmes and supports to the youth sector. Funding of some €53.498m is available in 2013 to support the provision of youth services and programmes to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. Targeted supports for disadvantaged, marginalised and at risk young people are provided through the Special Projects for Youth Scheme, the Young Peoples Facilities and Services Fund Rounds 1 and 2, Youth Information Centres and Local Drugs Task Force Projects. These funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 400,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 paid staff and 40,000 volunteers working in youth work services and communities throughout the country.

Funding provided by my Department to support youth projects in the Dublin City area is administered, on behalf of my Department, by the City of Dublin Youth Services Board (CDYSB).

Details of funding allocations for 2013 are outlined hereunder in tabular form.

My Department is currently collating the funding allocations tot he individual youth projects and this information will be forwarded directly to the Deputy this week.