Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of State grants and or other supports given by her or any agency or State body attached to her Department to the Institute of International and European Affairs during the past two decades up to 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10847/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, on foot of the restructuring of Government Departments announced by the Taoiseach in March 2011, functions that previously were under the remit of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs - shortly to be re-named as the Department of Children and Youth Affairs - have now transferred to 6 reconfigured Departments.

I am advised that no grants or supports of the nature referred to by the Deputy were paid to the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) by the Family Support Agency, which is the sole agency under my Department's aegis at this time. Responsibility in regard to other agencies formerly within my Department's ambit have now transferred to the relevant receiving Departments.

My Department has been a corporate member of the Institute of International and European Affairs. Details of the annual membership renewal fee paid to the IIEA by my Department are available for the years from 2004 onwards and are provided in the table below.