Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the response. I am very pleased there has been such a significant uptake. It is an extraordinarily important scheme, which I know the Minister of State will recognise. I am certainly hopeful the Minister of State would see fit, along with the Cabinet, to increase the level of funding available, given the unprecedented level of applications. I am very pleased to hear that more than 1,000 of the clubs and associations that have applied for equipment grants, if I am reading between the lines, should hear a little sooner than the balance, which is very good news. A number of improvements have been made to the sports capital scheme in recent years. Certainly, in my time in this House, it has become a much fairer and more transparent process which the public can access regularly through the online portal.

I have one question in regard to the clubs and associations which apply but whose application is unsuccessful initially, perhaps due to a lack of documentation. Is it the Minister of State's intention to permit those clubs to fix their application to become eligible or will they be rolled on into the next programme, whenever that might be? The Minister of State might offer clarity on that.

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