Written answers
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Department of Health
National Lottery Funding
6:00 pm
Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 393: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide details of the amount of funding that has been allocated from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund since 1998 to projects in the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central as part of building, equipping and furnishing of health facilities capital expenditure. [12666/11]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations. The funding available for 2011 is â¬3,786,000. Prior to 2009, details of all recipients of lottery grants were set out in the Appropriation Account of my Department. Following a decision by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Appropriation Accounts no longer provide this detail, but require each Department to publish this information. As stated in the Appropriation Accounts for Vote 39, details on the recipients of lottery grants are available on my Department's website at www.dohc.ie.
The specific information sought by the Deputy is not routinely collected by my Department and the Deputy will appreciate that the compilation of this information could not be facilitated without undue commitment of staff resources and administrative cost.
However, if the Deputy has a question in relation to a specific project funded through the National Lottery Discretionary Fund, I will make appropriate enquiries, and have the information forwarded to the Deputy.
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