Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown in the allocation of funding for the National Lottery in respect of each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, to specify the amount of funding allocated to the fund each year; the amount of funding administered to individual recipient programmes per year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19319/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The surplus generated by the National Lottery is transferred annually to the Exchequer and is applied to part-fund the Exchequer allocations to a specified range of expenditure subheads across various Votes. It is not, a priori, allocated by specific spending headings as such. The amount transferred to the Exchequer from the National Lottery surplus, together with details of the total Exchequer allocations to the relevant lottery supported subheads, are published each year in Appendix 1 of the annual Revised Estimates for Public Services which gives a breakdown of allocations by programme.

The following information, contained in Appendix 1 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services, shows the allocation of funding by Department for 2009 and 2010. Similar information in relation to 2011 will be available in the Revised Estimates for Public Services for 2011, which will be published shortly.

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

In short, the lottery surplus funds around 61% over the total spending under these headings.