Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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225. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual grant made to each of the organisations in receipt of funding from the youth service grant scheme in each of the years 2004, 2011 and 2018 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24496/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The current allocated funding for the youth sector in 2019 is €60.4m; this represents a 2.5% increase on the 2018 allocation. This additional funding will be used to support programmes in areas where there are disadvantaged young people and where there is a pressing need for targeted services to meet the needs of young people. 

The Youth Service Grant Scheme (YSGS) provides funding, on an annual basis, to 30 national and major regional voluntary organisations. The continued funding of voluntary youth organisations through the Scheme is intended to ensure the emergence, promotion, growth and development of youth organisations with distinctive philosophies and programmes aimed at the social education of young people.

My Department was established in 2011 and I am happy to supply the Deputy with information relating to the funding provided to youth organisations under the Youth Service Grant Scheme for the period 2011 to 2018 which is outlined in the following table.

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