Written answers
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Department of Education and Skills
National Lottery Funding Disbursement
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the way moneys received from the national lottery fund in 2013 were spent on each project to which they were directed, including projects that were part-funded and wholly-funded from the fund; if she will indicate, for each such part-funded project, where the balance of funding was sourced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25025/15]
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount of money that was received by his Department from the National Lottery Fund in each of the years 2009 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; if she will provide a detailed breakdown indicating the way this money was spent, or otherwise directed, for each of these years; if any moneys are held in reserve arising from funds received over this period or before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25041/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 564 and 565 together.
Annually the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform provides details of Programmes part-financed by the National Lottery and disbursed by relevant Government Departments and Offices. The Revised Estimates Volume provides these details at Vote subhead level and identifies the aggregate amount of National Lottery funding towards the programmes in question, together with the amount of Exchequer funding which is required to support these programmes. For example the 2015 REV identifies that estimated total expenditure in 2014 of €410 million will be financed by €200 million from the National Lottery, the remainder will be funded by the Exchequer. (Reference page 224 of the 2015 REV). No National Lottery moneys have been allocated to my Department in 2015.
All expenditure incurred from the Education and Skills Vote – Vote 26 is funded by the Exchequer, in regard to the programmes identified in the REV no monies are paid directly to my Department from the National Lottery.
I include details of the expenditure disbursed for the past six calendar years (2009-2014) in the following table:
NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDING DISBURSED FROM VOTE 26- EDUCATION AND SKILLS -2009 TO 2014
In the years 2009 to 2011 National Lottery Funding was used to part-fund expenditure from discrete subheads to support expenditure on Adult Education Organisations and Cultural Activities as described in the tables below. In the years 2012 to 2014 National Lottery funding was used to part-fund Cultural Activities. In the year 2014, a once off allocation of €5 million, was used to fund book rental schemes. The discrete subheads used to fund the Organisations as well as the recipients are described in the following tables.
| -- | -- | -- | -- | Recipients of Funding from National Lottery | - | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014(Provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | ||||||
| Book Rental Scheme A10.1.1 - Once off Funding | - | - | - | - | - | 4,996 | |||||
| Cultural Activities Subhead B.14 from 2009-2012 and Subhead B13 w.e.f 2013) | 207 | 196 | 187 | 146 | 133 | 132 | |||||
| Adult Education Organisations (Subhead B1 to 2012) | 941 | 864 | 854 | - | - | - | |||||
| Total National Lottery Funding | 1,148 | 1,060 | 1,041 | 146 | 133 | 5,128 | |||||
| Recipients of Grants from Subhead A10.1.1 -Book Rental Scheme(1) | Sum Disbursed - 2014( Prov) | ||||||||||
| Name of Recipients | €000 | ||||||||||
| DEIS schools committed to establishing book rental schemes | 4,996 | ||||||||||
| Total | 4,996 |
2. Scheme in 2015 and 2016 is supported by the Exchequer.
| - | - | - | - | - | - | Sum Disbursed - 2009 | Sum Disbursed - 2010 | Sum Disbursed - 2011 | Sum Disbursed - 2012 | Sum Disbursed - 2013 | Sum Disbursed - 2014( Prov) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Recipients | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | |||||
| Foras Éireann | 11,400 | 11,000 | 10,500 | 10,000 | - | - | |||||
| National Youth Orchestra of Ireland | 114,000 | 108,000 | 103,000 | 100,000 | 98,000 | 97,000 | |||||
| Artane School of Music | 41,000 | 38,500 | 36,700 | 36,000 | 35,000 | 34,500 | |||||
| Feis Maitiu | 41,000 | 38,500 | 36,700 | - | - | - | |||||
| Total | 207,400 | 196,000 | 186,900 | 146,000 | 133,000 | 131,500 |
3. Recipients of Grants from Subhead B.1 - Adult Education Organisations(1)
| - | - | - | - | - | - | Sum Disbursed - 2009 | Sum Disbursed - 2010 | Sum Disbursed - 2011 | Sum Disbursed - 2012 | Sum Disbursed - 2013 | Sum Disbursed - 2014( Prov) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Recipients | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | €000 | |||||
| Aontas | 477,000 | 440,000 | 435,000 | - | - | - | |||||
| National Adult Literacy Agency | 333,000 | 302,000 | 298,000 | - | - | - | |||||
| Peoples College | 108,000 | 99,000 | 98,000 | - | - | - | |||||
| Irish Countrywomen's Association | 23,000 | 23,000 | 23,000 | - | - | - | |||||
| Total | 941,000 | 864,000 | 854,000 | - | - | - |
1. With effect from 1 January 2012 funding for Further Education was consolidated under one subhead in the Department of Education and Skills Vote. Funding for Adult Education previously funded under Subhead B1 was subsumed into the new consolidated Further Education Subhead G.8. This new expanded subhead was not designated with National Lottery funding status so funding for Adult Education from National Lottery sources ceased with effect from 31 December 2011.
N.B. The data supplied in regard to 2014 is provisional pending the finalisation of the annual Vote audit in 2015.
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