Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 239: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of funding made available to animal care and welfare groups each year for the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31173/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has in recent years made ex gratia payments to a number of appropriate bodies involved in the actual delivery of animal care and welfare services throughout the country. The funding available to any individual organisation is dependent on resources available and the level of demand and is therefore intended only as a contribution to the overall costs of the organisations. The amounts paid by my Department in the last two years are as follows: in 2003, €850,000 was allocated to 80 organisations and in 2004, €1 million was allocated to 83 organisations.