Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding can or will be offered to a community centre (details supplied) in County Kildare towards provision of youth facilities and storage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22806/06]

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. The programme is advertised on an annual basis.

Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the Press on November 27th and 28th last. The closing date for receipt of applications was January 20th 2006. A total of 1,338 applications were received costing a total of €670 million and for which funding of €312 million was sought. All of these applications were evaluated against the programme's detailed assessment criteria, which are outlined in the guidelines, terms and conditions of the programme. I announced provisional grant allocations totalling €53.745 million to 707 applicants classified as local on 6th June last. I intend to announce the provisional allocations for the regional, municipal/multipurpose and national projects in due course.

In relation to the organisation in question, an application for funding was not received under the 2006 programme. It is open to the organisation, 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 to the 2007 sports capital programme when that scheme is publicly advertised.