Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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234. To ask the Minister for Health if greater funding can be made for the day-to-day upkeep of societies (details supplied) given that many are struggling to keep these programmes going; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26850/22]

Frank Feighan (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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In 2022, Men’s Sheds received funding as follows from the overall Health budget –

- 122,000 for the “Shed’s for Life” Programme from Healthy Ireland

- 287,000 from the HSE

This is total funding of €409,000

In relation to any additional HSE funding for future years, the process is that organisations fill out an application annually applying for funding. All applications are reviewed by a committee along with output from previous years grant aid agreement and decisions are made annually on agreeing funding. Decisions are also informed by overall projected spend within the HSE Health & Wellbeing budget, other cost pressures and new funding available. Men’s Sheds, along with other NGOs, are very familiar with this process.