Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount the NGO and charity sector receive in funding from his Department per annum. [26622/21]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a record will be provided of the annual funding received by the NGO and charity sector from his Department in each of the years 2000 to 2020. [26642/21]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated to each NGO and charity in each of the years 2010 to 2020 by his Department. [26655/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 to 190, inclusive, together.

While my Department does not generally provide direct funding to non-governmental organisations, it does fund the costs of Ireland’s membership of a number of international organisations (e.g. World Trade Organisation, International Labour Organisation, European Space Agency). The total funding provided to support these memberships in 2020 was €26.355 million. 

My Department also provides funding to a number of discrete committees and enquiries (e.g. Company Law Review Group, Balance for Better Business) which assist the Department in the exercise of its mandate. In 2020 a total of €186,000 was allocated to these committees. 

In addition, my Department provides discrete consumer support funding to the European Consumer Centre to assist in the provision of information regarding such things as online dispute resolution bodies, geo blocking rules etc. A total of €70,000 was provided in respect of such consumer support in 2020.

Finally, since 2019, my Department provides funding for ad hoc humanitarian flood relief schemes to assist eligible undertakings whose premises have been affected by severe flooding and who have not be able to secure insurance against such events. Such schemes, which currently are administered on behalf of the Department by the Red Cross, are allocated funding on a needs basis. €251,000 was allocated to this in 2020 and €60,000 in 2019.