Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the non-governmental organisations in receipt of funding from his Department; the amount of funding allocated to same in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24379/21]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department funded two non-governmental organisations in 2020, as set out in the table below.

My Department funded Transparency International Ireland in 2020 to support the Department’s role in the implementation of the Protected Disclosures Act, 2014. My Department provides this funding in order to help workers raise concerns regarding potential wrongdoing that has come to their attention in the workplace across the public sector.

In 2020, my Department also provided €950,000 in grant assistance to Benefacts. The funding allowed Benefacts to expand its free online database of annual regulatory and financial information on non-profits, and to help pilot the provision of data services with public bodies, in order to make grant administration and oversight more effective.