Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 349: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the various ways in which local sports clubs can secure public funding both for capital and current costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23934/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Under the sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, funding is allocated to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country towards the provision of sporting facilities. The programme is advertised on an annual basis. It is open to sporting and community organisations, should they have a project which satisfies the terms and conditions of the programme, to apply when the next round of the programme is announced.

The date of the next round of the Programme has not yet been decided. As in previous years, advertisements announcing the next round of the Programme will be placed in the national press and application forms will be available at that stage. As regards current funding, I am advised by the Irish Sports Council that Local Sports Partnerships provide a small amount of funding to clubs for club development and/or coaching courses.