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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 24 May 1988

Vol. 380 No. 10

Written Answers. - National Lottery Funds.

34.

asked the Taoiseach the amounts allocated by his Department from national lottery funds in each county to date.

To date £14.96 million has been allocated to my Department from the proceeds of the national lottery for arts and culture and Irish language related projects. Details relating to the projects assisted by the Department of the Taoiseach — on a county basis — are set out in the attached Appendix 1. The cultural agencies/projects with a national dimension are indicated separately.

Details regarding grants from Roinn na Gaeltachta are listed in Appendix 2.

Appendix 1

List of Arts and Culture Projects allocated funds from the National Lottery for 1987-88

£(000)

Cultural agencies/projects with a national dimension

8,369

Arts Council

3,800

National Museum

988

—grant-in-aid 1988 516

—renovation 360

—Natural History Museum 100

—feasibility study 12

Proposed National Heritage Council

—balance of grant

790

Irish Film Board

550

National Gallery of Modern Art

500

Abbey Theatre

400

Renovation of National Gallery

350

National Library

196

—grant-in-aid 1988 146

—conservation of the Lawrence Collection of photographs 50

National Archives

175

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann

100

Australian Bicentennial Programme

97

—Irish Gold and Silver Exhibition

—Microfilming of Australian Convict Records

—Louis le Brocquy Exhibition

National Concert Hall

75

Irish Manuscripts Commission

30

Crafts Council of Ireland

30

Sculptors' Society of Ireland

30

Heritage Advisory Committee Expenses

5

Reserve for contingencies and overruns

253

Dublin

1,280

Fund for Cultural Organisations e.g. Chester Beatty Library

505

R.H.K.

Touring Exhibitions Service

Royal Hibernian Academy: first phase of Gallagher Gallery

250

Moss Street Centre

150

Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery

100

Writers' Centre, Dublin

100

Dublin Theatre Festival

90

Museum of Labour History

50

Transport Museum Society

20

Dublin Film Festival

15

Cork

335

Irish National Ballet: first phase of Firkin Crane

130

Cork Opera House

100

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

40

Graffiti Theatre-in-Education Company

30

Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

20

Cork Film Festival

15

Donegal

225

Letterkenny Arts Centre

200

Tullyarvan Mill Project

25

Galway

200

Galway Arts Centre

200

Limerick

100

Restoration of Bishop's Palace

80

City Gallery, Limerick

10

Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick

10

Carlow

100

Clashganna Mills Trust

100

Roscommon

80

County Heritage Centre, Strokestown

30

Douglas Hyde Interpretive and Commemorative Centre

50

Wexford

60

Wexford Theatre Royal

30

Theatre Workshop

30

Tipperary

55

Roscrea Heritage Centre

30

Tipperary South Riding County Museum

25

Kilkenny

50

Kilkenny Theatre

50

Mayo

50

Fund for Cultural Organisations —Exhibition Centre, Castlebar

50

Kildare

33

Castletown Foundation

33

Waterford

30

Garter Lane, Waterford

20

Waterford Theatre Royal

10

Sligo

10

Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo

10

Total allocated by Department of the Taoiseach

10,977

Roinn na GaeltachtaAppendix 2

£3,822,000 san iomlán atá dáilithe ag Roinn na Gaeltachta cheana féin as fáltais an chrannchuir náisiúnta. Baineann £1,385,000 de sin le himeachtaí nach bhfuil lonnaithe in aon Chontae ar leith. Tá an fuílleach de £2,437,000 roinnte i measc na gcontaetha seo a leanas:

£

Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath

120,000

Contae Chiarraí

740,000

Contae Chorcaí

290,000

Contae na Gaillimhe

1,187,000

Contae na hIarmhí

100,000

Tá £160,500 fós le dáileadh.

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