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Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 June 2012

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

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Derek Keating

Ceist:

243 Deputy Derek Keating asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State in tabular form for the past three years; if he is satisfied that the State should be financing such organisations; if he will undertake to examine the savings that can be made in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28921/12]

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The expenditure provisions for my Department are set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and are a matter of public record. The Revised Estimates list the main funding provided by the Department.

The details of funding provided by the agencies under the aegis of the Department to a multitude of small diverse businesses and organisations is a matter for the agencies themselves and these can be made available from the agencies should the Deputy require. In the case of the sports capital programme, full details of individual grants to sporting organisations are available from my Department's website http://www.transport.ie/sport/projectsandprogrammes.aspx.

Funding provided by my Department to the agencies under its remit towards administrative costs and for the provision of services has been substantially reduced over the past number of years. The Programme for Government and the Department's Statement of Strategy sets out our commitments to achieving further savings, including through means such as enhanced efficiencies, reduction in staffing numbers, merging of organisations, shared delivery of services and/or the outsourcing of activities.

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