Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 723: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of national lottery funding his Department received in 2009 and 2010; if he will provide a list of the money that was spent in tabular form. [21982/11]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The allocation of the proceeds of the National Lottery is a matter for the Minister for Finance. Under the Sports Capital Programme, which is administered by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and part funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table:

In both years the payments made exceeded the Estimates provision. This was because of virements of savings from other subheads to the Sports Capital subhead. The list of money spent under the Sports Capital Programme in 2009 and 2010 will be provided to the Deputy separately.