Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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383. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [25031/15]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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384. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount of money that was received by her 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. [25047/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 384 together.

My Department receives monies from the National Lottery Fund as a contribution towards the cost of running the Charitable Lotteries Fund (CLF). The CLF was established in 1997 to provide assistance to the promoters of certain private charitable lotteries that have products similar to products sold by the National Lottery. The CLF is only open to organisations that were already running charitable lotteries in 1997.

Funding for the CLF was originally drawn exclusively from the National Lottery surplus but, as with other National Lottery funded subheads, since 2005 it has been drawn also from Exchequer funds. The CLF was transferred to my Department from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in June 2011.

Assistance available under the scheme has gradually been reduced in the following way:

The amount received from the National Lottery Fund in each year since the CLF was transferred to my Department is set out in the table below. All monies received in this manner were, along with the funding from the Exchequer, expended in providing assistance under the CLF.