Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the services his Department provides for young people in each town in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60337/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My Department provides a range of funding for youth services nationally. The Education and Training Boards are funding intermediaries for my Department, including the Limerick and Clare ETB.

Information provided by funded organisations by county under UBU Your Place Your Space is available on our website: ubu.gov.ie/about/youth-services/ubufo

The main beneficiary organisation in Clare is the Clare Youth Service, based in Ennis, and has a presence around the county including Ennis, Shannon, and, a recent addition to UBU Your Place Your Space in Killaloe. This service received over €320,000 in funding under UBU Your Place Your Space in 2022. My Department provides funding of some €55,500 for a youth information centre based in Ennis. In addition to funding for these youth services, some €160,000 was provided to Limerick Clare ETB under the Local Youth Club Grant Scheme, and this will have benefited clubs across Co. Clare.

The funding from my Department supports the delivery of a range of youth work programmes and services for all young people, including those from disadvantaged communities, by the voluntary youth work sector. In Clare these include:

- UBU Your Place Your Spaceis a youth funding scheme that targets disadvantaged young people with evidence informed interventions and services to deliver better outcomes. 

- Youth Information Centres provide young people with access to information on rights, opportunities, benefits, health, welfare and other matters.

- The Local Youth Club Grant Scheme supports volunteer-led youth work activities at a local level. 

The area will also expect to benefit from funding nationally under the Youth Service Grant Scheme to support more universal service provision to 30 national or regional organisations.