Peadar Tóibín
Ceist:521. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the amount the NGO and charity sector receive in funding from her Department per annum. [26621/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 18 May 2021
Ceisteanna (521, 522, 523)
Peadar Tóibín
Ceist:522. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education if a record will be provided of the annual funding received by the NGO and charity sector from her Department in each of the years 2000 to 2020. [26641/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraPeadar Tóibín
Ceist:523. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the funding allocated to each NGO and charity in each of the years 2010 to 2020 by her Department. [26654/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraFreagraí scríofa
I propose to take Questions Nos. 521 to 523 together.
The funding allocated to my Department, as set down in the annual Estimates, is used to meet costs associated with the provision of educational services in our schools and various related functions. The allocation is used primarily to fund the salaries of teaching and non-teaching school staff, the development of school infrastructure, capitation funding for the ongoing running costs of schools, the payment of pensions to retired school staff, the costs associated with the school transport scheme and the general administration costs of my Department.
Funding is also provided to enable the Department to make grant payments to Education and Training Boards to meet costs associated with the provision of certain educational services and to the various agencies and bodies that come under the aegis of my Department. Funding is also allocated for a range of programmes and initiatives.
The annual Appropriation Account and Revised Estimates for Public Services for my Department's Vote provides detailed information regarding expenditure and receipts.
In the course of its work, my Department makes a significant number of payments every year. Such payments are made to individuals and organisations both by way of grants and also for the provision of goods and services to it. Some of the recipients of this funding may be non-governmental organisations and/or have charitable status although my Department’s funding programmes are not generally directly aimed at such organisations. However, as those labels are not necessarily assigned to payees and as my Department would be reliant on the relevant information being correctly notified by the organisations concerned, it is not possible to provide an accurate and complete list of such recipients. In those circumstances and in view of the fact that the Deputy has sought information covering a span of some twenty years, it would not be possible without utilising very significant staff resources to search for, identify and retrieve the information sought by him.
If, however, the Deputy wishes to provide me with the names of specific non-governmental organisations or organisations with charitable status I will arrange to have the level of funding, if any, paid to them by my Department ascertained and provided to him.
Question No. 522 answered with Question No. 521.
Question No. 523 answered with Question No. 521.