Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the family and community services resource centre programme; the number of applications received; the funding being made available; when decisions will be made in respect of those applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48357/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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There are 109 Family Resource Centres currently in receipt of funding from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Tusla provides funding to the centres under an annual agreement. This funding is provided by way of a contribution towards the running costs of the centres. The financial allocation to support this programme amounts to €13.51m in 2017. I was pleased to announce recently that additional funding of approximately €5.0m is being allocated to existing centres and to support the expansion of the programme with the inclusion of an additional 11 centres next year.

In relation to the additional information which the Deputy has requested, I have asked Tusla to provide the information requested directly to the Deputy.