Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1186. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to each ABC centre in 2018; and the amount budgeted for 2019, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13274/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme is a prevention and early intervention initiative targeting investment in effective services to improve the outcomes for children and families living in a number of specific areas of disadvantage.

It was originally designed as a time-bound, co-funding arrangement, led by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) in conjunction with The Atlantic Philanthropies (Atlantic), with a joint funding allocation of €29.7m (2013-2017) . As of 31st December 2018 €38.7m has been invested jointly by the co-funders to the ABC Programme (€14.9m from Atlantic and €23.8m from DCYA).

In September 2018, the ABC Programme transitioned to Tusla as part of the national Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Programme (PPFS).

The figures below represent the total net grant funding paid to the ABC areas by Pobal and Tusla from January 1st to December 31st 2018, and the agreed full year budgets for 2019. While final 2019 budgets have yet to be agreed with one of the ABC areas, payments continue to be made, on the basis of confirmed expenditure in previous years.