Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of non-governmental organisations which receive funding from Irish Aid, the amount of funding received in 2010; and the amount they are budgeted to each receive in 2011. [15753/11]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Government's aid programme, administered from within the Department of Foreign Affairs by Irish Aid, is sharply focused on the reduction and eventual eradication of global poverty and hunger. Our partnership with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) represents a very important element in this effort, reflecting the broad support among Irish people for the development programme.

In 2010, the Government, through Irish Aid provided over €125 million for the development work of NGOs. This NGO funding is administered through a range of funding schemes covering long term development, emergency and recovery assistance and development education. Significant recipients of such grants include Concern, Trócaire, GOAL, Self Help Africa, Irish Fair Trade Network, Christian Aid, Oxfam Ireland, World Vision, Action Aid and Plan Ireland. These organisations received a combined total of over €77 million for their development and humanitarian work in 2010. As valued partners of the development programme, all these organisations are due to receive grant allocations of a similar size in 2011. Decisions on final disbursements for 2011 are dependent on appraisal and approval processes which are still underway.

Additional funding is provided to NGOs under the development programmes from the nine priority countries for Irish Aid, where we have a commitment to long-term strategic assistance. Furthermore, a small grants programme is administered by eleven Embassies accredited to countries where Irish Aid does not have a bi-lateral development co-operation programme. In total, Irish Aid provides grants to over 200 NGO partners.

The following table provides a list of those organisations which received significant funding (over €100,000) in 2010 from funding schemes administered by Irish Aid headquarters and amounts confirmed to date for 2011.

Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the top ten countries to receive Irish aid; the amount of funding they received in 2010; and the amount they are budgeted to each receive in 2011. [15754/11]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Government's aid programme, which is administered by Irish Aid in the Department of Foreign Affairs, provides assistance to over eighty countries in the developing world, with a strong focus on the least developed countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa.

There are nine Programme Countries for the aid programme, where we have a commitment to long term strategic assistance. Irish Aid administers specific budgets for long term development assistance in these countries, on the basis of detailed development plans focused on the reduction of poverty levels. The Programme Countries are: Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Timor Leste. Additional funding is also provided through development Non-Governmental Organisations, missionaries, the multilateral and UN systems, and in response to humanitarian emergencies.

The ten countries to which the greatest amount of funding was directed under the aid programme in 2010, are listed below. Final confirmation of these figures is subject to the receipt of the finalised detailed financial reports from NGOs and other partners.

For 2011, the following direct programme budgets have been allocated for our aid programmes in the nine Programme Countries (these figures do not include Irish Aid funding which will be channelled through NGOs and multilateral agencies)

Full details of all countries receiving funding from the Government under the aid programme are contained in the Irish Aid Annual Reports which can be accessed at http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/publications_report.asp and which have been placed in the Dáil Library. I expect that the Annual Report for 2010 will be published in September.