My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund, from which once-off grants are awarded to community and voluntary organisations, providing health related services. Organisations which are awarded a grant must certify their expenditure on completion of the project. Details are available on my Department’s website.
With the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) in Northern Ireland, my Department sponsors Safefood, the Food Safety Promotion Board (FSPB). Safefood is a North-South body set up to protect and improve public health by fostering and maintaining confidence in the food supply on the island of Ireland. Sponsorship details are set out in the table that follows the reply.
In 2012, to ensure value for money, my Department and the DHSSPS carried out reviews of the role and responsibilities of the FSPB and its interaction with other organisations working in the food safety, diet and nutrition areas in their respective jurisdictions. These provided the basis for enhanced communications structures between the organisations, helped clarify the role of the FSPB and informed their Business Planning process.
The FSPB adopts a value-for-money approach to all its activities and best practice corporate governance is applied. Their annual Business Plan is examined by both sponsor Departments and the respective Finance Departments, and then approved by the North-South Ministerial Council. Between 2011 and 2013, savings of 9% have been achieved and measures designed to achieve annual efficiency savings of 4% from 2014 to 2016 are in place.
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Year
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Organisation Name
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Name of Campaign
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Safeguards put in place by the Minister re VFM
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Cost (€)
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2013
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Safefood
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Childhood Obesity Campaign
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The campaign is being run in partnership between the Department, Safefood and the HSE and officials from both the Department and the HSE are on the working group delivering and overseeing the campaign
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The total cost of the current phase of the campaign is €1.2m
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2013
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Safefood
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Operation Transformation
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS)
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1,466,240
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2013
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Safefood
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Operation Transformation
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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274,259
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2013
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Safefood
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Food Waste
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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835,498
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2012
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Safefood
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Stop the Spread
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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614,670
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2012
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Safefood
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Food Hygiene
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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898,029
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2012
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Safefood
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Food Waste
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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540,714
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2012
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Safefood
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Operation Transformation
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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186,346
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2011
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Safefood
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Weigh2Live
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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245,222
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2011
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Safefood
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Food Hygiene
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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609,913
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2011
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Safefood
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Operation Transformation
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Business Planning/Corporate Planning Process and Review by both DoH and DHSSPS
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211,740
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