Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of funding across all operations allocated to family resource centres by his Department in each county in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form. [62674/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, administers the Family Resource Centre (FRC) Programme. The programme provides funding supports to 121 FRCs across the country. Core funding for the national FRC Programme is provided from my Department (Vote 40) with the allocation of approximately €18m annually to Tusla. FRCs may receive funding from Tusla, other than core funding, including occasional one-off supports, for example in the context of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 and from Dormant Accounts funding.

My Department provides funding directly to service providers (including FRCs) which deliver childcare services under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme and the Community Childcare Scheme Plus (CCSP) Saver Programme. Services operating any of the aforementioned programmes would also be eligible to apply for Programme Support Payments. In recent years FRCs may also access youth funding programmes, including Youth Affairs 'Follow Your Dreams project'.

I can confirm that funding provided by my Department directly to FRCs includes the following breakdown by county for Sustainability Funding, Communities Integration Fund, LGBTI Community Services Fund, LGBTI+ Capacity Building Grant Scheme, National Integration Fund and What Works.

The data is aggregated from funding provided to applicants clearly identified as FRCs.

* Payment of €15,000 made to Mid-West FRC Regional Forum (a network between the 9 FRCs in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary)