Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

916. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the State funding provided by her Department and agencies under its remit, including Tusla, to Anew and its predecessor organisations, Anchora and Life Pregnancy Care, for each year from 2008 to 2015; and her views on the role of that organisation in providing crisis pregnancy counselling to homeless women, given the statement in its constitution recognising the uniqueness of every human life from the moment of conception. [22045/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I can confirm that my Department does not provide any core funding to Anew. A funding proposal from Anew has recently been received in my Department and is currently under consideration.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency who come under the remit of my Department, has confirmed that it does not provide core funding to this organisation. However, it did make a once off payment of €7,500 in relation to an individual case in 2015.

I invited this organisation to participate in the Homeless Summit in my Department on the 7th of July along with other frontline organisations. During the course of our meeting, they outlined the work they are doing currently with pregnant women at risk of homelessness and those who are homeless.