Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 738: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the non-governmental agencies or organisations his Department has provided funding to in 2004, 2005, and 2006; the amount of funding provided to each in each year; the number of applications for funding submitted to his Department in total; the number of these applications which were refused; the reason for same; the percentage of his Department's overall annual budget such funding equates to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27393/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table details the funding by my Department to non-governmental agencies or organisations in 2004, 2005 and 2006. For 2005, the most recent full year, the total funding provided was €3,448,018, which comprised 0.45% of my Department's current budget for the year. The data does not include substantial capital and other funding provided by my Department under schemes which are administered by local authorities with involvement of voluntary bodies, e.g. voluntary housing projects.

To date my Department has received 234 applications for funding for the 3 year period. 9 of these have been refused of which 6 have been redirected to other Departments where funding may be available. Of the other 3 that were refused, 1 was on the basis of there being no funds available under the Environment Fund for that particular initiative in 2005 and the other 2 refusals where as a result of the organisations failing to meet the required criteria.