Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 405: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will outline separately in each of the past five years the amount received by his Department in respect of national lottery funding; the grants approved by him; the amounts actually paid out by him; the position regarding the balance yet to be paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12722/11]

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 total amounts published in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) in each of the past five years are set out as follows. The funding available for 2011 is €3,786,000. The total amount paid to organisations to date from this year's Lottery allocation is €1,007,160 leaving €2,778,240 remaining, of which some €400,000 is at an advanced stage of finalisation. There are 350 applications currently in the process of being assessed.

National Lottery Allocations - REV (DoHC)

2011 €3.786m (of which €1.007m paid to date)

2010 €3.786m

2009 €3.985m

2008 €2.985m

2007 €3.903m

Regarding the detail of individual grants made over the last five years, details for 2009 and 2010 are published on my Department's website (www.dohc.ie). The details for previous years are published as an Appendix to my Department's Appropriation Account for that year which is published by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Finally, the HSE is also in receipt of National Lottery funding and makes grants available from this source to local voluntary organisations and other organisations. I am not directly involved in decisions regarding these grants, which are determined locally/regionally within the HSE. I have requested the HSE to compile this information and make it available to the Deputy.

The REV provisions for the HSE over the last five years are as follows.

National Lottery Allocations - REV (HSE)

2011 €7.513m

2010 €7.513m

2009 €7.513m

2008 €7.513m

2007 €7.358m