Vol. 399 No. 5
4 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for the Environment the number of persons employed in his Department who are assigned to process and review the projects recommended by local authorities for national lottery funding for recreational and amenity grants.
Administration of the amenities/recreational facilities grants scheme forms part of the responsibility of the Environmental Services Section of my Department which deals with a wide range of amenity and miscellaneous environmental services. The total staff of the section comprises eight persons, two of whom work on a work-sharing basis and one on a part-time basis. It is not possible to provide an estimate of the time devoted by the staff concerned to the scheme in question; this would, in any event, vary considerably throughout the year.
