Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 297: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the national lottery monitoring committee on community and voluntary sector engagement; and if he will report on its activities to date in 2005. [31410/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The national lottery beneficiary fund monitoring committee was established by my Department to oversee implementation of the recommendations of the 1997 report of the national lottery review group. The monitoring committee ceased to exist when it was subsequently decided that the recommendations of the review group could better be pursued within the broader context of the then Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs on the White Paper on a Framework for Supporting Voluntary Activity and for Developing the Relationship between the State and the Community and Voluntary sector, rather than via a separate committee. The White Paper was published in 2000; responsibility for its implementation now rests with the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.