Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 365: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a club (details supplied) in County Longford; if he will approve funding for the project in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21899/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for an association (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if he will approve funding for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21900/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 367: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a centre (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if he will approve funding for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21901/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 368: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grand scheme 2005 for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21905/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 369: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a company (details supplied) in County Galway; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21906/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 370: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a park (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21907/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 371: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21908/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a centre (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21909/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21910/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 376: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has concluded his evaluation of an application under the sports capital grant scheme 2005 for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if funding will be approved for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21916/05]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 365 to 373, inclusive, and 376 together.

The national lottery funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The programme is advertised on an annual basis. Applications for funding under the 2005 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 5 and 6 December last. The closing date for receipt of applications was 4 February 2005. All of the 1,362 applications received before that deadline, including one from each of the organisations in question, are being evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, which are outlined in the guidelines, terms and conditions of the programme. I intend to announce the grant allocations for the programme as soon as possible after the assessment process has been completed.

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 374: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to correspondence (details supplied), if he will furnish a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21912/05]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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The correspondence to which the Deputy refers relates to an application from an organisation under the 2005 national lottery funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department. This programme allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. It is advertised on an annual basis.

The project to which the Deputy refers is an application from an organisation towards the cost of musical instruments and has absolutely no sporting element to it. As such it is not eligible for funding under the sports capital programme. No projects without a sporting element have been grant-aided under the programme during my term as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number and value of applications submitted to his Department from counties Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford and Galway respectively under the sports capital grant scheme 2005; when he intends to make an allocation under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21914/05]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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The national lottery funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The programme is advertised on an annual basis. Applications for funding under the 2005 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 5 and 6 December last. The closing date for receipt of applications was 4 February 2005. A total of 1,362 applications were received before that deadline, for projects which the applicants estimated on their application forms cost a total of €637 million. The information on the counties specified by the Deputy is as follows:

All applications are being evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, which are outlined in the guidelines, terms and conditions of the programme. I intend to announce the grant allocations for the programme as soon as possible after the assessment process has been completed.