Written answers

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

National Lottery Funding

8:00 pm

Photo of Maureen O'SullivanMaureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 284: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views that while, for the past number of years, each Government Department with responsibility for expenditure that is part-funded by the National Lottery surplus published information concerning such expenditure on their website, the reality is that no Government Department publishes a consolidated compendium of its National Lottery expenditures – on its website or otherwise – and the considerable changes in Department structures, titles, staffing and responsibility in the course of 2011 make it a practical impossibility for a lay person, even with access to Government Department websites; if he will identify the way National Lottery Funds were expended in recent years, geographically, thematically or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10709/12]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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As I have outlined in replies to previous questions, the allocation of funding from subheads which are part-funded by the surplus from the National Lottery is the responsibility of a number of Government Departments and Agencies. These Departments and Agencies are listed each year in Appendix 1 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services (REV). In recent years, funding raised by the Lottery has only part-funded the subheads with the balance coming from the exchequer. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the distribution of Lottery funding per se. However, I note the case which is being made by the Deputy for the preparation of a compendium setting our details of expenditure of Lottery funding and I will bear her views in mind.

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