Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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915. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the State funding provided by her Department and agencies under its remit, including Tusla, to non-profit organisations, including voluntary hospitals and non-governmental organisations for each year from 2008 to 2015. [22044/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs provides funding directly to a wide range of community, voluntary and other organisations that are engaged in the provision of specific services to children and young people. The most significant share of the funding, which amounted to €249 million in 2011, €262 million in 2012, €250 million in 2013, €247m in 2014 and €248m in 2015, is targeted at implementing three major childcare programmes that include the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme, the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, and the Community Education and Training (CETS) programme.

My Department also provides annual funding to seven National Voluntary Childcare Organisations to enable them to provide a support service to their members in the context of these programmes. The individual amounts paid to the organisations in each instance over the last five years are set out in the following table:

*merged as Early Childhood Ireland in 2012

My Department also provides funds to support organisations through a number of other programmes that include the following:

- Funding for the support of voluntary youth work is made available on an annual basis to 32 national and major regional voluntary youth organisations through the Youth Service Grant Scheme which 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. €52.683 million was paid to the organisations under the Scheme over the years 2011 to 2015 as follows:

- Support for Barnardos and Early Childhood Ireland who act in the role of authorised signatory in accordance with the Child Care (Pre-School Services) (No. 2) Regulations for the vetting of childcare providers. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has facilitated these organisations in this regard through the provision of funding which amounted as follows for each of the years:

*merged as Early Childhood Ireland in 2012

- The provision of €88,467 in 2015, €85,447 in 2014, €87,631 in 2013 and €50,240 in 2012 to the ISPCC towards the running costs associated with the operation of the Missing Children Hotline. The funding provided in this instance is in respect of the provision of a service. The organisation also received €150,000 in 2015, and €150,000 in 2014, towards costs relating to data harvesting from ISPCC reporting systems and towards ISPCC cooperation in the development of child-friendly contact points and in the development of Children First reporting mechanisms.

- Funding was also provided for contractual services for a range of children and young people’s participation initiatives that include supporting Comhairle na nÓg, Dáil na nÓg and consultation with children and young people on behalf of my Department and other Government Departments and agencies. The monies provided for these services for each year since 2011 are as follows:

Funding has also been provided to support the following non-profit organisations to support the participation of children and young people or promote children’s culture and play, through their activities:

- Funding of €23,629 was provided to the Children’s Rights Alliance in 2015 for two civil society reports to be made by it to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in preparation for the Committee’s examination in January 2016 of the State’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

- Grants were also made available to groups and organisations involved in the provision of services to children and young people through the provision of funds from the application based National Lottery Funding Scheme. The provision of lottery funding was essentially once off and details of the organisations that were allocated funds over the period 2011 to 2014 are published on my Department's website - www.dcya.gov.ie.

I have requested the agencies under the remit of my Department to compile the relevant information relating to their operational areas and to forward their responses directly to the Deputy.