Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Question 155: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the supports available for equestrian centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28871/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, is the primary means of providing funding to sporting clubs, voluntary and community organisations towards the provision of sporting facilities at local, regional and national level throughout the country. In this regard, it is open to organisations, including equestrian centres, which have a project that meets the terms and conditions of the programme to apply under future rounds of the programme. 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 newspapers and application forms will be available at that stage.

In relation to current funding for equestrian sports, the Irish Sports Council (ISC) is the statutory body responsible for the promotion and development of sport and in that context has an ongoing funding relationship with Horse Sport Ireland, the new body responsible for equestrian sport in Ireland.