Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I will, but I know from experience over the years and not only as the Minister responsible that all applications for sports grants go through a rigorous assessment which has nothing to do with the Minister responsible. Unless they come through that process, they do not end up on the desk in terms of recommendations for allocations. There is certainly no way in which a Minister could return to raise the issue of a proposed project, which, as in many cases, may not be approved for technical or legal reasons, including matters related to title.

All I can say in response to the area highlighted by the Deputy is that the applications submitted were obviously of a very high quality and they passed muster in terms of all the assessments that were done.

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