Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts received from the national lottery in respect of worthy causes for each of the past five years; the amounts paid out to each Department in each of those years; the current balance on hand in his Department; his plans to distribute the funding that is being raised by the national lottery for good causes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12659/11]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The surplus generated by the National Lottery is transferred regularly to the Exchequer. The surplus transferred is applied to part-fund the Exchequer allocations to a specified range of expenditure subheads across various Votes. The amount transferred to the Exchequer from the National Lottery surplus, together with details of the total Exchequer allocations to the relevant subheads are published each year in Appendix 1 of the annual "Revised Estimates for Public Services".

The following table is a summary of the information contained in Appendix 1 of the "Revised Estimates for Public Services" for the past five years.

Exchequer Allocations to Government Departments for subheads that are part-funded by the National Lottery (€m)

Note: Since 2005, the expenditure allocations for the relevant subheads exceed the amount available from the National Lottery surplus. Therefore, these subheads are now described as being "part-funded by the National Lottery" and the balance of the expenditure comes from normal Exchequer sources.

An estimated amount of €230m will be available from the National Lottery in 2011 to support Exchequer funding for good causes. The proposed expenditure on good causes by the various Government Departments is set out in Appendix I of the Revised Estimates for 2011.

Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider authorising an updated version of the National Lottery Beneficiary Compendium in view of the fact that the most recent version was published in 1998. [12663/11]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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For the past number of years, each Government Department with responsibility for expenditure that is part-funded by the National Lottery surplus publishes details of such expenditure (including lists of recipient organisations and amounts involved) on the Department's website. Links to all this data are also provided from the National Lottery's website. In view of this, there are no plans to prepare an updated National Lottery Beneficiary Compendium.