Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister of State have a timeline as to when he expects to have adjudicated on all of the applications, valid or not? When might clubs expect feedback? I also have question about the large-scale application grants. The closing date for applications is later this month. I refer, in particular, to St. Conleth's Park, which is the county ground in Newbridge. The slogan "Newbridge or nowhere" became famous last year for good reason. The GAA did not want us playing a major championship game in our home ground. We are not proud of the state of our stand in Newbridge. We are, however, very proud of our football, ladies football, camogie and hurling teams. They play in St. Conleth's Park but our infrastructure could be much better. We need a large-scale infrastructural grant, as the Minister of State is aware. Given the application deadline, when does he anticipate a decision will be made on those projects? Kildare GAA is putting in its application currently.

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