Mr. Fergal Carruth:

Deputy Bruton asked if any other clubs applied for the OSCAR grant and why some clubs did not. The answer to that is yes. A lot of clubs benefitted from the OSCAR grant to the tune of almost €600,000. For the ones that did not, we have, with the assistance of the Irish Sports Council, employed two development officers to go directly into clubs and, amongst other things, help them to fill out application forms for various grants and local sports partnership funding that may be available to them. They have already started with the association and are now visiting clubs.