John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of each allocation from his Department’s expenditure budget to registered charities in each of the past three years. [2104/14]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding to two entities who are registered with charitable status as approved by the Revenue Commissioners. The first such body is the Consumers’ Association of Ireland. Funding is provided to the Association to support suitable projects to enhance its capacity to address the needs of consumers. Funding in the amount of €29,000 was provided to the Association in 2010. The Association did not receive any funding in 2011. An amount of €46,865 was provided to the CAI in 2012 and €45,000 was paid to the Association in 2013.

The second body is Microfinance Ireland Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Social Finance Foundation and was established in 2012 pursuant to the Microenterprise Loan Fund Act 2012. It is a limited company with registered charitable status. Its purpose is to manage the Microenterprise Loan Fund by making loans to microenterprises in accordance with the requirements of the 2012 Act. My Department with the consent of the Departments of Finance and Public Sector and Reform provided a once off grant of €10 million to Microfinance Ireland in 2010.