Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide details in relation to the amount of funding allocated from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund since 1998 to projects in the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central under schemes (details supplied). [12664/11]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides grant-in-aid funding, part-funded by the National Lottery, to a number of organisations providing adult education, cultural and scientific activities. The funding is for their general running expenses.

The Department has not allocated funding from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund to any projects in the Cork North Central constituency in the categories referred to by the Deputy. However, my Department does provide grant-in-aid to the Feis Maitiú based in the Father Mathew Hall in Cork City.

Details of funding provided by the Department to Feis Maitiú over the past five years are as follows: 2006 - €44,500, 2007 - €45,000, 2008 - €45,000, 2009 - €41,000 and 2010 - €38,500. In 2011, funding of €36,700 has been provided for Feis Maitiú.

Funding for youth grants is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Health and Children who will provide a reply on this aspect of your question.