Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1482. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Dormant Accounts Fund allocations and payments administered by his Department to recipients in County Carlow and County Kilkenny in 2020–to date in 2025; and the measure/initiative, recipient/project, location, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid; with annual totals per county, in tabular form. [48804/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The main purpose of the Dormant Accounts Act is to reunite account holders with their funds. Unclaimed funds are transferred to the Dormant Accounts Fund, which is managed by the National Treasury Management Agency. The beneficial owner has a right to reclaim their money at any time. Legislation governing Dormant Accounts established an administrative framework for the disbursement of funds to measures that address economic, social or educational disadvantage, or which assist persons with a disability. In July 2017 responsibility for this function transferred to the then Minister for Rural and Community Development. Measures are delivered across Government, with each Department responsible for the delivery of approved measures within their own policy area and remit.

My Department operates a numbers of measures which utilise Dormant Accounts Funding. Attached are details of the payments made to Carlow and Kilkenny, under the relevant schemes, from the Dormant Accounts Fund since 2020.