Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is possible for organisations to receive funding on more than one occasion from the lottery funding available to her Department. [43236/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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My Department has a National Lottery Discretionary fund in place which provides once-off grants to community groups and organisations, providing a range of health related services. The assessment of applications is informed by the fact that these grants are discretionary 'once off' funding.

The funding made available by my Department to voluntary organisations from the National Lottery Fund, including the breakdown by programme and a list of each body in receipt of funding is published in the Appropriation Accounts audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Since 2009, this information is set out on my Department's website - www.dohc.ie.

As can be seen from these schedules, organisations can and have received funding on more than one occasion. However, each application is assessed on its own merits on a year to year basis.