# Dormant Accounts Board to be abolished

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/06/15/dormant-accounts-board-be-abolished/
- Published: 2012-06-15T11:01:31+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Dormant Accounts Board, which has provided €267 million to a range of community
projects in Ireland since it was established in 2003, is to be abolished, the Irish
government has announced.

The Board still has over €100 million in the pot but the restrictions placed on 
the Irish government as a condition of the bailout by the so called ‘troika’ of 
lenders to Ireland – the European Commission, European Central Bank and International
Monetary Fund – means that the remaining funds cannot currently be distributed to
community projects.

The Dormant Accounts fund is money that was gathered from banks accounts and insurance
policies that were inactive for more than 15 years.

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The remaining funds will be transferred to the Department of Environment but any
decision about spending the funds has to be sanctioned by the Department of Public
Sector Reform which acts in accordance with restrictions placed on it by the troika.

Dormant Accounts funding helped those affected by economic and social disadvantage,
those affected by educational disadvantage and people with a disability.

www.dormantaccounts.ie

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