Youth Services
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-03
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David Stanton (FG), Cork East

I concur with Deputy Griffin's final point. Throughout the country, there are youth organisations that have nowhere to go. Has the Department considered engaging schools that are closed? Some of them, which often have fantastic facilities the State has paid for, lie idle at night and on weekends, when young people could use them. Throughout the country, in towns and villages, they are there. Will the Minister give some thought to that and engage with schools? It would not cost a lot.
Minibuses are something youth organisations keep telling me they would like to have to get out of the club and into the countryside. Is there a fund through which they can apply to get that kind of facility?

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Sitting date: 2021-12-03