Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, year on year, of the compensation funding stream from the National Lottery, to those charities who had their own scratch card fund raising in situ and whose returns were negatively impacted by the introduction of the coterie of National Lottery products; if he will provide the above requested detail by individual charity; if he will project forward the anticipated or scheduled supports that each charity will receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4431/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Charitable Lotteries Fund was established in 1997 to provide assistance to the promoters of certain private charitable lotteries that have products similar to products sold by the National Lottery. The Fund was originally drawn from the National Lottery surplus but, as with other National Lottery funded subheads, it is now drawn also from exchequer funds. From its establishment until 2011, the Charitable Lotteries Fund was administered by the Department of Finance. In mid-2011 responsibility for its administration was transferred to my Department and details of funding for 2012 and 2011 are as follows:

Charitable Lotteries Fund Allocation 2012

This Scheme cannot be sustained in the current circumstances and beneficiaries have been advised that it will be phased out on a gradual basis according to the following schedule, subject in the usual way to availability of funding on an annual basis, receipt of satisfactory applications from eligible organisations, and compliance with the terms and conditions of the Scheme: 2013 - Total available fund:€4 million; 2014 - Total available fund: €2 million; 2015 - Total available fund: €1 million; 2016 and subsequent years - Total available fund: Nil. The phasing out of the Scheme is currently the subject of a Judicial Review and, as such, I am not in a position to comment further.