Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 March 2024
297. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level of funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular form. [12725/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraI wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has funded two non-governmental organisations over the past three years, with the amount of funding set out in the table below.
My Department has funded Transparency International Ireland since 2013 to support the Department’s role in the implementation of the Protected Disclosures Act. My Department provides this funding in order to help workers raise concerns regarding potential wrongdoing that has come to their attention in the workplace.My Department provided grant funding to Benefacts between the period 2015 and 2022. The project was funded as a pathfinder initiative in the area of data analytics on the non-profit sector. Benefacts was initially co-funded with philanthropy. However, in latter years, the Department had been providing the majority of funding to the entity. On foot of an independent report in 2019 and a subsequent review in 2020, my Department ceased funding Benefacts in March 2022.
|
NGO |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Transparency International Ireland |
€220,000 |
€285,000 |
€373,453 |
|
Benefacts |
€900,000 |
€263,852 |
(€87,000)* |
*At its cessation, Benefacts refunded grant monies of €87,000 owed to the Department.
