Written answers

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

National Lottery Funding Disbursement

Photo of Pat DeeringPat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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504. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding per annum a charity (details supplied) received for 2016 or the nearest available year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43660/17]

Photo of Katherine ZapponeKatherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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My Department operated a discretionary National Lottery Funding Scheme some years ago in which grants were allocated to community groups and programmes to support children, young people and families. The scheme closed in 2014. The organisation in question last received a sum of €7,000 from my Department in 2013 to provide training resources for child contact centres.

The child contact centres were set up under a pilot project operated by Barnardos and One Family from October 2011 to December 2013. I have made contact with the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the final evaluation report of the pilot project, suggesting that our two Departments would jointly review the evaluation report in light of changing infrastructural arrangements such as the establishment of the Child and Family Agency and the proposed Family Courts Service, and consider its recommendations accordingly.

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