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Youth Services.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 October 2007

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Questions (284)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Question:

367 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Science the amount of grant funding her Department has provided to Foróige for the years 2002 to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22342/07]

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Written answers

Foróige receives annual grant-in-aid funding from my Department under the Youth Service Grant Scheme, Special Projects for Youth Scheme and Youth Information Centres Scheme.

The organisation has received total grant-in-aid funding of €26.6million for the years 2002 to 2007 to date. Details of the funding provided are as follows:

Youth Service Grant Scheme

Year

Grants-in-aid paid

2002

1,689,850

2003

1,821,952

2004

1,894,830

2005

2,064,667

2006

2,319,001

2007

2,492,926

Special Projects for Youth Scheme

Year

Grants-in-aid paid

2002

1,528,473

2003

1,683,200

2004

1,795,591

2005

2,261,881

2006

2,444,838

2007

2,747,453

Youth Information Centres

Year

Grants-in-aid paid

2002

323,096

2003

276,143

2004

297,948

2005

370,725

2006

354,395

2007

204,207

Note: Foróige grant-in-aid in respect of one Youth Information Centre has not yet been finalised and is not included in the above total for 2007.

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