Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the allocation made to youth work services over each of the past ten years, by county, in tabular from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42352/17]

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. Targeted supports for disadvantaged, marginalised and at risk young people are provided through the Special Projects for Youth Scheme, the Young Peoples Facilities and Services Fund, Rounds 1 and 2, Local Drugs Task Force Projects and certain other programmes including the Local Youth Club Grant Scheme and Youth Information Centres.

Details of the funding provided to youth services and projects by my Department since its establishment in 2011 are not readily available in the format requested by the Deputy. The funding for the provision of youth services is administered on behalf of my Department by a number of funding administrative bodies. In the main, these are the Education and Training Boards.

Information on the allocations provided to youth services by receiving organisations in each of the years 2011 to 2017 is available at the following link.