Written answers
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Family Resource Centres
Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the precise level of funding to be allocated to the family resource centre programme in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15629/17]
Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has advised that the current 2017 allocation to the Family Resource Centre Programme is €13.512m.
In 2016, Tusla provided financial support to some 109 communities nationwide under this Programme. This will continue in 2017.
Tusla plans to build on the strengths of the Family Resource Centre Programme in the years ahead to deliver its mandate for community-based early intervention and family support.
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