Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position of an application (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the amount of work carried out by this community in association with his Department; when funding can be expected by this group to enable the community to plan the completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37054/05]

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.

The organisation in question was allocated a grant of €250,000 under the 2002 sports capital programme towards the cost of developing their facilities. This allocation was increased by the extra allocation of €5,000 as a "top-up" grant under the CLÁR programme by my colleague the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív. All of this grant aid has already been paid to the organisation. The organisation's application for funding under the 2005 programme was unsuccessful and it was advised accordingly on 2 August 2005.

Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 27 and 28 November 2005. The closing date for receipt of applications is 20 January 2006. It is open to the organisation in question, should it wish to do so and should it have a project which satisfies the terms and conditions of the programme, to submit an application for funding under the 2006 programme.