Written answers

Thursday, 25 October 2007

Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

Sports Capital Programme

5:00 pm

Photo of James BannonJames Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 43: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if additional funding will be made available for the new sports hall at school (details supplied) in County Longford as water damage to the new facility will cost €106,000 in additional funding to repair and the facility cannot now be opened to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25765/07]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus 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.

The organisation in question has been allocated €90,000 under the programme in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Of this, €66,500 has been drawn down to date. I understand that the organisation were also allocated €18,000 in top-up funding under the CLÁR programme by my colleague the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

My Department has not received any request for additional funding from the organisation in question but they are free to apply for the next round of the programme if they have a project that meets the published Guidelines, Terms and Conditions governing the programme. 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.

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