Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 July 2020
887. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 575 of 7 July 2020, the amount allocated to the discretionary national lottery funding scheme each year it was in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15899/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraI can confirm that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs operated a discretionary National Lottery Funding Scheme from 2011 to 2014 in which grants were allocated to community groups and programmes to support children, young people and families. This scheme closed in 2014.
The records available to hand indicate that my Department’s Vote had a specific allocation of €500,000 in respect of this discretionary National Lottery funding in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
As indicated previously, my Department currently has resource provisions for Youth Programmes and Services which are allocated under a distinct Subhead which is “part-funded by the National Lottery”. Under this arrangement the dedicated resource allocation contains a combination of Exchequer and National Lottery funding. As previously outlined, it is not possible for my Department to differentiate between the value of the Exchequer and National Lottery components of the funding resource.
