Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 April 2012
1153 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the amount of funding made available to an organisation (details supplied) since its foundation; the up-to-date position with this organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18553/12]
View answer1155 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money she has made payable to an organisation (details supplied) per annum; the reason these moneys were awarded; the reason accounts were not audited; if previous commitments that this group would be investigated were carried out and the findings of same. [19014/12]
View answer1156 Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of public funds paid to the organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the work in which the organisation engages and the steps taken by the Departments and agencies to monitor this work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19039/12]
View answer1157 Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way that she intends to make an organisation (details supplied) be accountable for its finances and its placement of funds received from religious orders and the Health Service Executive since its inception in 1999; if she will address the need for greater accountability of the appropriation of future funding and the monitoring of the effectiveness of the organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19458/12]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 1153 and 1155 to 1157, inclusive, together.
For the period 2001 to 2005 payments to this group were sanctioned by the then Department of Health and Children and issued by the then North Eastern Health Board from a Central Development Fund. Since 2005, the HSE has had full responsibility for these matters. The following table sets out the level of funding provided to the group in question for the period 2001 to 2005:
|
Year |
Amount |
|
2001* |
€170,814 |
|
2002 |
€171,925 |
|
2003 |
€202,909 |
|
2004 |
€297,354 |
|
2005 |
€275,504 |
*includes a National Lottery Grant of €38,192.
Audited reports for the years 2001 to 2004 were provided to the Department by the group. My Department has sought the information requested by the Deputy, in respect of any funding provided to and the accounting arrangement with the group with effect from 2005/2006 to date, from the HSE and I will provide the information to the Deputy when it becomes available.
