John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 332: To ask the Minister for Defence the agencies or bodies to which his Department provides funding or in respect of which it is administratively responsible; the bodies and agencies for which his Department is responsible in respect of his policy; the amount of funding provided in each of the years 2007 to 2010 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21749/10]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The bodies under the aegis of the Department are the Civil Defence Board, the Army Pensions Board and the Board of Coiste an Asgard. The information requested in relation to the yearly financial allocation is as follows:

The Department also provides support services (finance, IT, human resources) to these bodies. In the context of settling the Estimates for the Department for 2010, the Government decided that the national sail training scheme operated by Coiste an Asgard would be discontinued as recommended in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure. As a result, no funding has been provided in 2010. In addition, the Department makes a grant in aid to the Irish Red Cross Society. The Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces is also provided for from the vote of the Department of Defence.