Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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312. To ask the Minister for Health the status of lottery funding for a group (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [32694/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. Funding in 2016 amounts to €3.286m of which € 585,000 has been allocated to date.

The application for funding received from the organisation referred to by the Deputy is among a large number of applications currently being assessed by my Department.

I will decide on the allocation of the remaining funds in the coming weeks. Once a decision has been made, organisations will be notified of the outcome of their application.