James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 413: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the persons or bodies in receipt of subventions or grants from her Department; the amount paid to each recipient in the year such payments commenced; the amount paid to each recipient in the current year; to place in the Oireachtas Library the latest two sets of accounts for these payments furnished by such persons or bodies to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39685/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the many grants awarded by my Department, including the recipients and the amounts involved, are available on the Department's corporate website at www.tcs.gov.ie. These include grants awarded over many years under the Department's Sports Capital Programme and Arts and Cultural Capital Enhancement Support Scheme. None of the grant programmes and schemes require that sets of accounts from the grantees be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. However, I can assure the Deputy that payment of these grants is subject to certain criteria being met and my Department maintains proper oversight of the grantees' use of the monies involved, including the operation of a capital inspection programme.