Youth Work Supports

2. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the commitment in Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services 2024-2028 to produce a workforce development strategy; if an advisory group has, or is intended to be, set up; the terms of reference for the group; if pay and conditions are to be considered as part of…

102. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth when arrangements for the youth capital funding scheme for 2026 will be finalised and released; if funding will be released under the youth capital funding scheme for 2026 have to be drawn down and spent within the 2026 calendar year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53907/26]

354. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the plans in place to provide funding for additional youth work supports in County Kerry, specifically the provision of four full-time universal (non-targeted) youth workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29340/26]

131. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider putting forward a proposal to the Department of Public Expenditure; Infrastructure; Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to make public servants of youth workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10537/26]

175. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she can provide an update on the targeted youth employability support initiative; to detail the impact measurement tool that is being developed; the timeline for the trial and evaluation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10939/26]

1162. Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when discussions regarding the alignment of the Youthreach calendar year with the second level calendar year will be concluded; when an announcement will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62221/25]

868. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of the implementation of the 'Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services 2024-2028'; which of the 18 priority actions have been commenced; the budgetary allocation for same; the way in which youth services are being increased in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the mat…

1228. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans, including budget 2026, for an assessment of the funding of youth work services in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43542/25]

933. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education if a young person under the age of 16 who meets the criteria of section 14 Statutory Register of the Education Welfare Act, 2000, is confirmed as not participating fully in a Youthreach programme, to outline the procedure for follow-up assessments/ongoing monitoring. [19822/25]

1843. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will give detailed consideration to the issues raised by a national organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19430/25]

339. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount in youth funding for County Wexford in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [18118/25]

950. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether she agrees that multi-annual funding should be introduced for the youth work sector in order to enable multi-year planning and continuity of youth work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2639/25]

951. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1068 of 9 April 2024, to outline the progress on the development of a ‘workforce development plan for the youth sector, to support the recruitment and retention of staff and volunteers in the sector’ as committed to by her predecessor (details supplied). [2640/…

952. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason employer pension contributions are not included in eligible costs for the youth service grant scheme pilot; whether she agrees that pension costs should be included as an eligible cost given that youth work is experiencing a recruitment and retention crisis; and if she will make a statem…

953. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital funding being made available to the youth work sector in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2642/25]

954. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the budget allocation for youth work and youth affairs in 2025; how the funding is being allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2643/25]

955. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total capital funding allocation for youth work within each budget per year from 2009 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2644/25]

956. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total current funding allocation for youth work within each budget per year from 2009 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2645/25]

957. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total allocation to each youth work funding scheme per year for the years 2014 to 2025, or from when the funding scheme was introduced if later than 2014, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2646/25]