Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 July 2017

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Ceisteanna (619)

Seán Fleming

Ceist:

619. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of each body or organisation that is scheduled to receive in excess of €1 million from her Department's Vote of expenditure or the group of Votes of expenditure connected with her Department in 2017 for the provision of services by the body or the organisation concerned; the amount involved in each case; if there is a signed service level agreement in place in respect of the services to be carried out by these bodies or organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36151/17]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Details of the financial allocations for 2017, including those to bodies under the aegis of my Department, are published in the Revised Estimates for Public Services (REV) 2017 which is available at the following link: http://www.ahrrga.gov.ie/app/uploads/2016/12/2017-financial-allocations.pdf

Under the revised Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies published by DPER in August 2016, Performance Delivery Agreements have taken the place of service level agreements.

Service Level Agreements were signed in respect of all bodies under the aegis of my Department in 2016. The position in relation to the signing of Performance Delivery Agreements in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department is set out in the following table.

Body	Performance Delivery Agreement signed
Arts Council	Yes
Chester Beatty Library	Yes
Crawford Art Gallery	Yes
Heritage Council	Under discussion. Nearing finalisation
Irish Film Board	Yes
Irish Museum of Modern Art	Yes
National Archives	Under discussion. Nearing finalisation
National Concert Hall	Under discussion. Nearing finalisation
National Gallery of Ireland	Yes
National Library of Ireland	Yes
National Museum of Ireland	Under discussion. Nearing finalisation
Údarás na Gaeltachta	Yes
Waterways Ireland	Yes
Western Development Commission	Yes
Foras Teanga (Comprising Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster Scots Agency)	Under discussion*

* For the sake of completeness, I would point out that the annual budgets for Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency are subject to approval by the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC), given their status as agencies of An Foras Teanga, a North South Implementation Body co-funded by my Department and the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. In that context, once ongoing discussions between the Finance Departments in both jurisdictions on the budgetary position for 2017 are finalised, the draft business plans and budgets for 2017 will be brought before the NSMC for approval.