Vol. 440 No. 4
137 Mr. McGinley asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the amount of funding allocated to DÍON during 1993; the organisations in the United Kingdom who benefited from this fund; and the total amount paid to each organisation.
The amount of funding allocated for the year 1993 to voluntary organisations in Britain who provide advisory and welfare services to Irish emigrants there was £500,000. The same amount has been allocated for 1994.
Grants were paid to 34 such voluntary organisations assisting Irish emigrants in Britain on the basis or recommendations made by the DÍON Committee. The DÍON Committee, which comes under the aegis of my Department, comprises eight members from both Ireland and Britain and is based in the Irish Embassy in London.
The organisations in Britain who received assistance in 1993 and the total amount received by each are set out in the following table:
