My Department administered a National Lottery Discretionary Fund during the years 2008 to 2016 from which once-off grants for individual projects were paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services.
A list, in tabular form, of all the organisations that received lottery funding in each of these years is available on my Department's website at: http://health.gov.ie/about-us/lottery-funding-2008-2016/.
In 2015, my Department approved two applications for National Lottery funding as follows:
€20,000 to North West Alcohol Forum for multi-disciplinary professional training;
€25,000 to Alcohol Action Ireland towards the campaign to build support for the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015.
In 2016, my Department approved one application for National Lottery funding:
€75,000 to Alcohol Action Ireland to engage with the EU to build support for the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill.
My Department no longer operates a National Lottery Fund. However, the HSE operates a similar scheme and continues to provide grants to health agencies and other organisations from National Lottery fund.