Written answers
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent in advertising and-or sponsorship in respect of conferences external and internal, respectively in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, by conference; the aggregate amount for each year; the amount available in the remainder of 2019 to fund same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9180/19]
Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Details of the conferences sponsored directly by my Department are set in the following table:
Sponsorship of Conferences | 2017 | 2018 |
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University College, Cork – Biennial Conference on National Child Protection and Welfare Social Work | €11,000 | |
Empowering People In Care (EPIC) - National Aftercare Conference | €8,000 | |
Irish Foster Care Association (IFCA) – Annual National Conference | €10,000 | €12,981 |
Irish Aftercare Network – Annual Conference | €2,500 | |
Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD) – Annual Conference | €9,840 | |
Children and Young People's Services Committees National Conference | €21,892 | |
Total by Year | €29,000 | €47,213 |
My Department does not have a dedicated budget for advertising and/or the sponsorship of conferences. As costs occur, they are allocated against the programme cost centre involved. The overall objective is to keep costs of this nature to a minimum and these services are only used when deemed necessary in the course of Departmental activity. In the circumstances, it is not possible to identify the projected spend for 2019.
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