Written answers

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Youth Services Funding

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a grant application by an organisation (details supplied) will be decided upon. [42947/17]

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on funding an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42978/17]

Photo of Katherine ZapponeKatherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 621 and 625 together.

In 2017, funding of €57.4m has been provided to my Department for various youth schemes, an increase of €5.5m over 2016. The additional funding is being used for programmes that target disadvantaged young people and to assist national youth organisations in their work to support local voluntary youth services. 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. These schemes include the Youth Service Grant Scheme, amounting to €10.65m in 2017, under which funding is made available on an annual basis to thirty national and major regional youth organisations. This funding 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.

Scouting Ireland receives grant aid on an annual basis under the Youth Service Grant Scheme. Details of the funding allocated to Scouting Ireland by my Department since it establishment in 2011 are outlined in the table.

Youth Service Grant SchemeYearGrant €
2017876,337
2016834,607
2015814,250
2014814,250
2013845,974
2012939,971
20111,005,317

In addition to the above, Scouting Ireland was allocated €150,000 in current funding in 2015 and a further €200,000 in Dormant Accounts funding in 2016 to support the Operation Lelievlet youth employment initiative.

Scouting Ireland also received €49,630 under the capital funding scheme for youth projects and services in 2016 tofund the improvement of disability access and security at Scouting Ireland.

In 2015 €30,000 was also allocated to Scouting Ireland to assist it with its budget sustainability to the year end.

In addition to the grant funding provided to Scouting Ireland in 2017 an additional application for funding has been received for funding for its AcadaMoot Programme and this application is currently under consideration within my Department.

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