Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will itemise the recipients, including their location, of National Lottery grants for this year to date and for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26779/13]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Appendix 1 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services, which is published each year, gives a breakdown by Department of all the expenditure areas that are supported by the proceeds of the National Lottery.

In recent years, the total allocation for the relevant subheads has exceeded the amount available from the National Lottery surplus. Therefore, these subheads are now described as being part-funded by the National Lottery and the balance of the expenditure allocation for the subheads comes from normal Exchequer sources. Consequently, it is no longer feasible to compile a list of programmes or organisations that receive Lottery funding per se as it is now not possible to indicate the level of funding that they receive specifically from the Lottery. However, Appendix 1 of the REV sets out both the overall level of expenditure under these subheads and the level of funding which comes from the proceeds of the National Lottery. For example, in 2012, overall expenditure under these subheads was 333 million euro of which 220 million euro came from the proceeds of the National Lottery. Individual Government Departments with responsibility for expenditure that is part-funded by the National Lottery surplus publish details of such expenditure (including lists of recipient organisations and amounts involved) on their websites.