Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding for St. John of God Community Services in each year since 2019; the breakdown of funding per service provided by the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3423/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

The Deputy will be aware that due to the ongoing industrial action by FORSA administrative and management grade staff in the HSE (which commenced on 6 October, 2023), delays remain in receiving answers to parliamentary questions and ministerial representations.

The HSE has been engaged with Fórsa through the auspices of the WRC in an effort to resolve the dispute but a resolution has not been reached as of yet.

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The table below shows the number of unique children by and across programmes that benefitted from my Department's funded schemes in the 2022 and 2023 calendar years, along with the number of unique children across the both years.

It should be noted that:

1. The total number of unique children availing of CCSP over 2022 and 2023 is identical, as the CCSP scheme is a legacy scheme and as such has been closed to new applicants since the introduction of NCS in 2019.
2. The TEC programme closed to new applicants in 2020, final legacy payments concluded in 2022 and the programme has now expired.