Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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398. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which her Department continues to support voluntary bodies involved in the provision of care or support to children at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19133/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provides financial support to a large number of organisations involved in the provision of services to children at risk. Grants are issued to service providers that work in conjunction with Tusla, as well as to local school completion projects and to voluntary organisations.

The total expenditure in the form of grants paid by Tusla came to some €151.7m last year.

Tusla will continue to support voluntary bodies that carry out this important work in 2018 and into the future.