Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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966. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the Meningitis Research Foundation in 2013-2014. [27031/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The Meningitis Research Foundation, a UK based charity registered in 1989, established an office in Dublin in 1996. It aims to work with families who have been affected by meningitis to promote awareness of the disease and to assist in raising funds for research into its prevention and treatment. My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. The Meningitis Research Foundation previously received lottery funding from my Department and can apply for further such funding again. It must be stressed that lottery funding is once-off discretionary funding and is not intended to provide a source of ongoing revenue funding.