Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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921. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding his Department provided under the young people’s facilities and services fund in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [12690/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in youth work services and communities throughout the country. In 2016, funding of €51m has been provided to my Department for these schemes.

From within this budget, my Department provides funding to projects under the Young People's Facilities and Services Fund. Some 230 projects are supported by the Fund and provide a range of supports including targeted drug prevention and awareness programmes, educational supports, after-school and homework clubs, social and personal development, Summer programmes and recreational activity.

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs was established in 2011. I wish to advise the Deputy that funding provided under the Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund in each of the years 2008 to 2016 is contained in the following table: