Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 400: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the value of the increases in charges and appropriations in aid in the financial years 1995-96 and 1997-98. [23505/05]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism had not been established during the years specified in the question, having been set up in June 2002. The areas that now constitute my Department were being operated in a variety of Departments over these years including the Department of Tourism and Trade, the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of the Taoiseach.

Other than charges under the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003, my Department does not normally receive income for charges or services. The majority of appropriations in aid receipts received by my Department are EU receipts, income generated by the National Museum of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland and the National Archives of Ireland and a small number of miscellaneous receipts. Details of appropriations in aid for my Department are published in the appropriation accounts and annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, Volume 2.