Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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854. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will meet a group (details supplied) regarding funding. [15350/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My Department provides funding to Scouting Ireland on a national basis under the Youth Services Grant Scheme. In 2020 Scouting Ireland was provided with a grant of €1,135,930. My Department cannot deal directly with individual scout groups, or indeed with local groups from any of the national youth organisations, as this would be unmanageable from an administrative and governance perspective.

I would strongly recommend that the scout group mentioned by the Deputy engage directly with Scouting Ireland in the first instance.