I propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 384 together.
My Department receives monies from the National Lottery Fund as a contribution towards the cost of running the Charitable Lotteries Fund (CLF). The CLF was established in 1997 to provide assistance to the promoters of certain private charitable lotteries that have products similar to products sold by the National Lottery. The CLF is only open to organisations that were already running charitable lotteries in 1997.
Funding for the CLF was originally drawn exclusively from the National Lottery surplus but, as with other National Lottery funded subheads, since 2005 it has been drawn also from Exchequer funds. The CLF was transferred to my Department from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in June 2011.
Assistance available under the scheme has gradually been reduced in the following way:
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Year
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-
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Amount
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2014
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Total available fund:
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€2 million
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2015
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Total available fund:
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€1 million
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2016 and subsequent years
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Total available fund:
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Nil
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The amount received from the National Lottery Fund in each year since the CLF was transferred to my Department is set out in the table below. All monies received in this manner were, along with the funding from the Exchequer, expended in providing assistance under the CLF.
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Year
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Amount received from National Lottery Fund (€)
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Amount received from Exchequer funds (€)
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Total Amount disbursed under CLF (€)
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2011
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3.78m
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2.22m
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6m
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2012
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3.96m
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2.04m
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6m
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2013
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2.9m
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1.1m
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4m
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2014
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0.98m
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1.02m
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2m
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2015
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0.49 (estimated)
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0.51m (estimated)
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1m (yet to be disbursed)
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