Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the funding of a family resource centre (details supplied) in Ballymun; the reasons Tusla has withdrawn funding from the group; if this funding will remain available to families in the Ballymun area. [27573/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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The Child and Family Agency has advised that since November 2012, the former Family Support Agency (now part of the Child and Family Agency), has been working with the Voluntary Board of Directors of the Family Resource Centre in question to address some concerns identified in relation to corporate governance practices. As these concerns remained outstanding in 2014, the Child and Family Agency undertook a process to transfer funding to a long-established community organisation in the Ballymun area, namely Young Ballymun. A key priority for the Agency is to ensure that funding under the Family Resource Programme remains available to children, families and the community in Ballymun and Young Ballymun are working collaboratively with the Agency to ensure the re-establishment of the Family Resource Centre in 2014.