Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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509. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if National Lottery funding is available at present through her Department to support the work of community groups; if so, if there are specific programmes eligible for grant assistance; the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33267/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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My Department is not administering a National Lottery Scheme in 2016. While a National Lottery Grant scheme was administered by my Department in 2014, it did not prove possible to allocate funding to administer a National Lottery Grant Scheme in 2015 or 2016 due to the many competing demands facing the Department’s Vote in those years, and the overall budgetary envelope available.