Dinny McGinley (Donegal South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 197: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the organisations in County Donegal that have applied to his Department for lottery funding towards the development of sports, community and other facilities in their areas. [13657/06]

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. Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 27 and 28 November last. The closing date for receipt of applications was Friday, 20 January. In excess of 1,300 applications were received before the closing date, including 62 applications from County Donegal.

All applications received before the deadline are currently 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. I do not propose to provide details of individual applicants until the assessment process has been completed and the allocations have been made.