Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 52: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the resources provided to him under receipts by the national lottery for each of the past three years; if he will provide a breakdown of the way funding is distributed; if he will outline the programmes so funded on an ongoing basis under each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27363/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Section 5 of the National Lottery Act 1986 provides that the surplus from the National Lottery may be used for the following purposes: sport and other recreation; national culture, including the Irish Language; the arts, within the meaning of the Arts Act 1951; the health of the community; and for such other purposes as the Government may determine. The following additional categories have been so determined: youth, welfare, national heritage and amenities.

In order to give effect to this statutory provision, the surplus from the National Lottery is transferred to the Exchequer on a regular basis and is applied each year to part-fund the Exchequer allocations to a specified range of expenditure subheads across various Votes. Each year, the amount transferred to the Exchequer from the National Lottery surplus, together with details of the total Exchequer allocations to the relevant subheads are set out in Appendix 1 of the annual "Revised Estimates for Public Services".

The following is a summary of the information contained at Appendix 1 of the "Revised Estimates for Public Services" for the last few years: