Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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1207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of each body or organisation that is scheduled to receive in excess of €1 million from his Department's Vote of expenditure or the group of Votes of expenditure connected with his Department in 2017 for the provision of services by the body or the organisation concerned; the amount involved in each case; if there is a signed service level agreement in place in respect of the services to be carried out by these bodies or organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36150/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Seven of the twelve State Bodies under the aegis of my Department have received or will receive in excess of €1 million in funding from my Department in 2017. It should be noted that the State Bodies in question receive funding from my Department to enable delivery of their statutory functions.

My Department is currently finalising an Oversight and Performance Agreement, based on the Department of Public Expenditure Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, which will be implemented across the twelve Bodies.

My Department provides in excess of €1 million in Exchequer funding to two other organisations, Enterprise Ireland (EI) and Horse Sport Ireland (HSI). The position in relation to EI is that my Department’s funding is included in a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between EI and its parent Department, Enterprise and Innovation (DEI). My Department also has an SLA with HSI.

Details of the State Bodies and organisations, the amount of funding and the oversight arrangements are set out in the attached table.