Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 3 Dec 1991

Vol. 413 No. 9

Written Answers. - National Lottery Funding.

Richard Bruton

Question:

111 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the detailed allocations from the proceeds of the national lottery for 1991, showing the projects supported within each Government Department on the same basis as recorded in respect of 1990 in pages 361-383 of the report of the Joint Committee on Commercial State-Sponsored Bodies on the national lottery company.

Minister for Finance (Mr. B. Ahern)

The information sought by the Deputy is set out in Annex I to the volume "Revised Estimates for Public Services 1991", copies of which are available in the Library.

The Government decided on lottery expenditures totalling £89.512 million in 1991, for the following programmes:

	1991 Allocation £m
Youth, Sports & Recreation
(including amenities)	37.677
Arts & Culture	21.003
The Irish Language	6.717
Health & Welfare	20.654
The National Heritage	3.461
Total	89.512

Details of the individual spending programmes may be sought from the various Ministers concerned.

Further lottery allocations approved in the course of 1991 were:

	£m
International Co-Operation(Disaster Relief)	0.60
Tourism, Transport & Communications (EXPO `92)	1.25
Health (Certain capital equipment)	1.50