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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 27 Jan 1988

Vol. 377 No. 1

Written Answers. - National Lottery Funds.

79.

asked the Minister for Finance if he will give details of the first allocation from the national lottery which was published at £7 million, the second allocation of £9 million and the third allocation of £43 million; and if he will specify in each case the organisations which are to benefit.

A further allocation of national lottery funds has been decided upon since the three allocations the Deputy mentions. The total allocated so far is as follows:

May 1987

July 1987

November 1987

January 1988

Total

£m

£m

£m

£m

£m

Sports and Recreation

3.15

1.6

20.3

1.7

36.75

Youth

4.0

6.0

Arts and Culture

1.75

1.55

8.0

6.584

23.134

Irish Language

0.35

4.0

0.9

Health and Welfare

2.1

2.0

6.0

0.75

10.85

Projects associated with the Dublin Millennium

0.7

0.7

7.0

9.5

45.0

9.934

71.434

The selection of individual projects within these broad programme areas is the responsibility of the spending Ministers concerned to whom questions about the issue of grants to recipient bodies should be addressed.

80.

asked the Minister for Finance the amount allocated to his Department from the national lottery funds; the projects to which he has allocated the money; and the amount of money involved.

A sum of £1.8 million has been allocated to the Office of Public Works. It will be used to fund expenditure on the following projects in 1988.

Project

Allocation

£

Kilmainham Jail — restoration works

200,000

National Library — provision of extra storage space

300,000

Customs House — restoration of stonework

1,000,000

Holy Trinity Church, Dublin Castle — remedial and restoration works

100,000

Casino at Marino — landscaping

200,000

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