I propose to take Questions Nos. 616 and 617 together.
Responsibility for the allocation of National Lottery funding to Departmental expenditure programmes generally is a matter for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The surplus generated by the National Lottery for good causes is transferred annually to the Exchequer and is applied to part-fund the Exchequer allocations to a specified range of expenditure subheads across a number of Departments, including my Department.
The amount transferred to the Exchequer from the National Lottery surplus, together with details of the total Exchequer allocations to the relevant Lottery supported subheads, is published each year by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in Appendix 1 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services (REV) which are available online at http://www.per.gov.ie/estpubexp2013/.
The table below sets out the total national lottery funding (some €107.488m) allocated to my Department in the last six years; no portion of this funding has been kept in reserve.
National Lottery Funding 2009-2014
2009
|
2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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€14,282,000
|
€16,929,534
|
€18,719,885
|
€21,277,795
|
€18,569,626
|
€17,709,605
|
The table below sets out details of the National Lottery funding provided to programmes in my Department in 2013.
Subheads part funded by the National Lottery in 2013
PROGRAMS
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FUNDING
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A.4. Social housing provision and support
(part funded by National Lottery)
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€430,869
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A.7 Private housing adaptation - grants and other supports
(part funded by National Lottery)
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€5,548,267
|
E.3 Supports for community and voluntary sector
(part funded by National Lottery)
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€5,960,262
|
E.4 Local and community development programmes
(part funded by National Lottery)
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€6,630,228
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Total
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€18,569,626
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Comprehensive details broken out to individual project level in respect of lottery funding 2009 – 2014 are published on my Department’s website at http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/CorporateServices/DeptFinance/