Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 260: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the criteria for allocating grants under the National Lottery; and the reason an organisation (details supplied) from County Limerick did not meet this criteria. [22587/06]

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.

All applications under the 2006 sports capital programme were evaluated by my Department in accordance with the assessment criteria for the programme published in the guidelines, terms and conditions document which accompanied the application form for the programme. Following completion of the evaluation of the applications received by my Department under 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.

The application from the organisation in question was unsuccessful and a letter advising them accordingly together with a copy of the assessment carried out on the application will be issued shortly. 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.