Eamonn Maloney (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 364: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money received from the national lottery by his Department and distributed in 2010. [8518/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The distribution of the proceeds of the National Lottery is a matter for the Minister for Finance. The Sports Capital Programme, which is part funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery, distributed more than €50 million to clubs, sports organisations and local authorities in 2010 for the provision of sports facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment. The Grant-in-Aid provided to the Irish Sports Council in respect of general assistance to sports organisations and expenditure in relation to sports activities is also part-funded by the proceeds of the National Lottery. The 2010 Grant-in-Aid allocation was €49.572m.