Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the element of funds which it was intended would be used for the promotion of sporting activities when allocating funds collected by the National Lottery; the purposes to which such funds will be put in view of the announcement from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism of the suspension of sports grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4155/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The total allocation for sport in the subheads part-funded by the National Lottery in the Vote for the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism in 2009 is €109.026m. The National Lottery contribution to the funding of all subheads (including sports subheads) part-funded from the Lottery amounted to €265m or 56.8% of the allocations in those subheads in 2008. The 2009 contribution will be included in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2009. As the Lottery funds are treated as an item of general non-tax revenue, it is not possible to indicate the percentage of Lottery funding contained in any individual subhead.

Budget 2009 includes an amount of €56m for the Sports Capital Programme to meet the cost of grants to those applicants who have already been awarded grants under previous rounds of the Sports Capital Programme.