Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Sports Facilities Expenditure

Photo of Sandra McLellanSandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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456. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the extent of capital or current funding provided for sporting or cultural activities in each of the Twenty-six Counties for each of the past four years, both from the proceeds of the national lottery and other sources; the proposed future expenditure from each source for the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29946/14]

Photo of Jimmy DeenihanJimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will recall, my Department was established in June 2011. Details of the annual funding allocation to my Department at subhead level, including those part-funded from the National Lottery, are published in the annual Revised Estimates Volume for each of the years since 2011 and are available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at . Through these subheads, my Department administers and delivers a wide range of programmes and measures, descriptions of which are available on its website at .

Expenditure under these programme areas is recorded and accounted for on a national basis and it is not possible to give a regional or county-by-county breakdown of that expenditure. For example, a number of my Department’s programmes are delivered through agencies and other intermediary bodies that operate across county boundaries and in respect of which no detailed breakdown on a county basis is held by my Department. Groups and organisations that receive grants directly from my Department are not typically constituted on a single-county basis.

In view of this and because of the wide range of my Department’s schemes and programmes, and the large volumes of payments and grants involved, it is not possible to provide the information sought. However, if the Deputy has specific queries relating to a particular programme or grant, I will endeavour to provide her with relevant information in that regard.

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