Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)
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577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the amount of money his Department has given to the Orange Order in the years 2012 and 2013; if he will provide in tabular form each grant provided and what it was provided for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36994/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department has not made any direct payments to the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland in respect of the years concerned.

The Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) manages, inter alia, cross-border European Union Structural Funds in Northern Ireland, including programmes under the PEACE III initiative. Some €5,646,138 in funding has been allocated by the SEUPB to projects involving the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland/related body under PEACE III. Of this, my Department has contributed funding of €2,047,289 (representing 36.3% of the total allocation); details are set out in the following tables. The EU Commission supports the PEACE III initiative of which by refunding 54.5% of allocated funding.

Table 1 Lead Project level