Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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269. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current and capital expenditure allocations for youth work from her Department in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26253/17]

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 involving approximately 1,400 youth work staff working in youth services and communities throughout the country.

Budget 2017 provided an additional €5.5m in current funding to my Department to support the provision of these youth services. This will bring total youth funding in 2017 to €57.4m. The current allocations to my Department between 2014 and 2016 were as follows:

In recent years, capital funding has been made available to my Department to purchase equipment and to support small scale projects, including refurbishment, health and safety fit-outs and accessibility improvements in local voluntary youth services. The capital allocations to my Department between 2014 and 2016 were as follows:

My Department is developing proposals for the disbursal of the 2017 capital funding allocation and I hope to be in a position to announce details in the coming months.

Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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270. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the additional €5.5 million for youth work services has been allocated in 2017; the additional funding that has been allocated to schemes (details supplied) in 2017 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26254/17]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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271. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the €51 million allocation to youth work services in 2016, including the allocation to schemes (details supplied); the way in which the balance of the €51 million funding other than to the schemes was allocated, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26255/17]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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272. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the €57.4 million allocation to youth work services was allocated in 2017, including the allocation to schemes (details supplied); and the way in which the balance of the €57.4 million funding other than to the schemes was allocated in tabular form. [26256/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 270 to 272, inclusive, together.

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 involving approximately 1,400 youth work staff and 40,000 volunteers working in youth work services and communities throughout the country.

Budget 2017 provided an additional €5.5m in current funding to my Department to support the provision of these youth services. This will bring total youth funding in 2017 to €57.4m. This additional funding has been used for programmes that target disadvantaged young people and to assist national youth organisations in their work to support local voluntary youth services. The following table shows the 2016 and 2017 allocations, broken down by funding line: