Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in order to hire additional staff to deliver necessary services in the north county Dublin region. [53813/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The organisation referred to by the Deputy received funding of €53,538 from my Department under UBU Your Place Your Space funding in 2023. A funding application under cycle 2 of the UBU Your Place Your Space Scheme has been submitted by this organisation via Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB and is currently being reviewed within my Department as part of the process of reviewing all applications received from the 16 ETBs.

On completion of the assessment and approval process the approved funding allocations for funded organisations within the functional areas of each ETB for 2024 will be notified to the relevant ETB.

Funding provided under the UBU Your Place Your Spacescheme does not directly fund youth worker posts or salaries. Rather, it is allocated on an organisation on a 'provision of service' basis to meet the identified local needs of the youth population in an area.

The UBU Your Place Your Space scheme is targeted towards disadvantaged, marginalised or vulnerable young people. The recruitment and employment of staff including youth workers is a matter for the youth organisations and services themselves.