Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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679. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total funding provided to Philanthropy Ireland in 2013 and estimated in 2014, broken down by expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13347/14]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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680. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the name of companies that were hired by Philantrophy Ireland for public relations works in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13348/14]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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683. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of times his Department received requests by Philanthropy Ireland to meet in 2011, 2012 and 2013; the number of times his Department met with Philanthropy Ireland in those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13387/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 679, 680 and 683 together.

Funding of approximately €1.9 million over a three-year period, beginning in 2012, is being allocated to Philanthropy Ireland ( on the basis that it is matched with funding from philanthropic sources ) to support the work of the Forum on Philanthropy and Fundraising. During 2013 my Department provided €631,635 to Philanthropy Ireland; this covers core costs for the organisation (€60,000), the roll out of the National Giving Campaign (€551,635) and the set-up of the Social Innovation Fund (€20,000). To date in 2014, funding of €315,817.50 has been provided to the organisation, representing 50% of the annual allocation in support of Philanthropy Ireland forum-related work, as outlined above.

Philanthropy Ireland recently provided a report to my Department on the National Giving Campaign which shows that Drury Communications were contracted by Philanthropy Ireland from the middle of 2012 to provide public relations support for this campaign. As the remaining funding provided by my Department to Philanthropy Ireland is in respect of core costs priority, my Department does not hold other information relating to Public Relations Companies hired by Philanthropy Ireland.

My Department met with Philanthropy Ireland on a number of occasions through the Forum on Philanthropy and Fundraising and separately in respect of the contractual arrangements and progress in respect of the Organisation’s delivery on the recommendations of the Forum to grow and develop philanthropy in Ireland. Details of these meetings are set out in the table below.