Written answers
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Department of Foreign Affairs
Overseas Development Aid
9:00 pm
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of funding given to agencies (details supplied) for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32733/07]
Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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Under the overseas aid programme operated by my Department a wide range of organisations receive funding.
The following table indicates the amount of funding provided to the agencies referred to by the Deputy.
| Agency | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| € | € | € | |
| Action Aid Ireland | 936,000 | 1,107,486 | 1,526,553 |
| Afri | 30,000 | 93,000 | 113,254 |
| Aidlink | 704,043 | 853,184 | 894,440 |
| Amnesty International — Irish Section | 74,020 | 74,000 | 112,000 |
| Bóthar | 66,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Centre for Global Education | 9,150 | 75,000 | 83,000 |
| Childfund Ireland | 296,028 | 592,350 | 982,767 |
| Children in Crossfire | 1,166,405 | 1,138,244 | 950,462 |
| Christian Aid Ireland | 2,481,013 | 2,856,600 | 3,311,483 |
| Church Mission Society Ireland (CMSI) | 115,000 | 330,358 | 447,583 |
| Comhlámh | 396,019 | 771,940 | 658,328 |
| Concern Worldwide | 17,254,868 | 22,347,500 | 23,214,791 |
| Galway One World Centre | 89,200 | 110,000 | 120,000 |
| Gorta | 224,765 | 0 | 0 |
| Irish League of Credit Unions-International Development Foundation | 20,125 | 0 | 60,000 |
| International Commission for Justice and Social Affairs (ICJSA) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) | 1,643,833 | 1,939,957 | 1,772,114 |
| Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) | 0 | 21,064 | 41,266 |
| Irish Foundation for Cooperative Development (IFCD) | 0 | 136,967 | 0 |
| Irish Missionary Union (IMU) | 0 | 8,000 | 0 |
| Irish Red Cross | 1,196,260 | 899,583 | 235,000 |
| Kerry Action for Development Education (KADE) | 144,800 | 107,600 | 100,400 |
| National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) | 217,850 | 252,577 | 290,366 |
| Oxfam-Ireland | 2,273,494 | 2,574,429 | 3,605,426 |
| Plan Ireland | 548,000 | 365,579 | 1,359,370 |
| Self Help Development International | 2,565,000 | 3,062,192 | 3,019,000 |
| Skillshare International Ireland | 232,711 | 452,450 | 646,186 |
| SUAS Educational Development | 278,939 | 90,000 | 300,000 |
| The Hope Foundation | 260,000 | 260,000 | 69,994 |
| Trócaire | 17,563,450 | 18,254,848 | 19,848,967 |
| Vita (formerly Refugee Trust International) | 140,627 | 600,000 | 595,000 |
| Voluntary Service International (VSI) | 13,800 | 20,632 | 24,408 |
| Voluntary Service Overseas (Ireland) | 996,585 | 1,133,805 | 812,873 |
| Voluntary Missionary Movement (VMM) | 0 | 0 | 4,000 |
| War on Want NI | 221,319 | 411,596 | 505,128 |
| Wingspread International | 39,000 | 0 | 0 |
| World Vision Ireland | 1,947,158 | 2,335,887 | 3,102,044 |
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