National Lottery Funding Disbursement

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 June 2015

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Questions (663, 664)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

663. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the way moneys received from the national lottery fund in 2013 were spent on each project to which they were directed, including projects that were part-funded and wholly-funded from the fund; if she will indicate, for each such part-funded project, where the balance of funding was sourced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25021/15]

Catherine Murphy

Question:

664. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount of money that was received by her Department from the national lottery fund in each of the years 2009 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; if she will provide a detailed breakdown indicating the way this money was spent, or otherwise directed, for each of these years; if any moneys are held in reserve arising from funds received over this period or before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25037/15]

Written answers

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

I propose to take Questions Nos. 663 and 664 together.

Under section 8 of the National Lottery Act 1986, the proceeds of the National Lottery are paid into the Central Fund of the Exchequer and therefore National Lottery funding is one of the constituents of Exchequer funding. The apportionment of National Lottery funding to various lines of voted expenditure is the responsibility of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

The components of my Department’s Vote, which are part-funded by proceeds of the National Lottery, are:

- Subhead A.9 An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Arts Council)

- Subhead B.3 Grant for An Chomhairle Oidhreachta (Heritage Council)

- Subhead C.4 Irish Language Support Schemes.

My Department was established in June 2011. Allocations in respect of these subheads for each year since then are set out in the Revised Estimates Volumes for the years in question and published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on its website at http://www.per.gov.ie/estpubexp2013/.

Details of National Lottery related expenditure for the period from then to 2014 are published by my Department on its website at: http://www.ahg.gov.ie/en/Publications/CorporatePublications/CurrentPublications/.

Information in respect of expenditure for 2015 will be published in 2016.