226 Ms Keogh asked the Minister for Education the amounts and purpose of any funding or grant allocations made by her Department or by bodies under the aegis of her Department to organisations (details supplied) in each of the years from 1995 to date in 1997. [12846/97]

In the period referred to by the Deputy, my Department made payments to the Irish Country-womens' Association, Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed, Conference of Religious of Ireland, National Youth Federation, National Youth Council of Ireland and to Pavee Point, an organisation which is linked to the Irish travellers movement. The details are as follows: