HC Deb 29 April 1980 vol 983 cc465-6W
Mr. Kilfedder

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how much has been paid by way of grants by the Southern education board or by the Department of Education to the Mullaghbawn youth club;

(2) what is the name of the meeting place of Mullaghbawn youth club; how much public money has been spent on the premises; and what legal arrangements exist for the return of these moneys, or a part of them, when the premises revert to the owners.

Mr. Goodhart

I presume that the question refers to Cuchulainn youth club, Mullaghbawn, which meets in the Cuchulainn youth club premises. In the past four years the club has received grant totalling £4,237 on its recurrent expenditure from the Southern Education and Library Board. The Department of Education for Northern Ireland has recently paid £9,000 capital grant for renovations and adaptations to the premises. The capital grant is secured by an undertaking signed by the trustees of the youth club, in which they agree that if the premises cease to be used for youth purposes to the satisfaction of the Department, the grant, reduced by one-tenth for each year of satisfactory use, will be repaid.