Beverley Flynn (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding is available from his Department to assist a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to establish a sports facility to cater for local youth and sporting groups and tourists to the area. [25189/06]

Beverley Flynn (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding is available from his Department to assist a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to establish a sports facility to cater for local youth and sporting groups and tourists to the area. [25188/06]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 170 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 under the Programme are only accepted from:

∙voluntary and community organisations, including sports clubs;

∙national governing bodies of sport and third level education institutions; and

∙in certain circumstances, schools, colleges and local authorities.

As it appears that the project in question is not being developed by one of the above categories funding would not be available from my Department.