Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 341: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the extent to which his attention has been drawn to the applications for grant aid in the past 12 months from the various sporting and recreational authorities or bodies in County Kildare with particular reference to those providing facilities for young people; the number of cases in respect of which he has made financial assistance available; the number of applications made to date in 2008; if closing dates have expired; the extent to which he expects to make a positive response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5280/08]

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. The 2008 sports capital programme was advertised on 13th & 14th of January last and the closing date for receipt of applications is 29th February for paper-based applications and 7th March for on-line applications. No details are available at this stage as to the number of applications from Kildare.

All applications received before the deadline will be evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, which are outlined in the guidelines, terms and conditions of the programme. I intend to announce the grant allocations for the programme as soon as possible after the assessment process has been completed. Under the 2007 programme, provisional funding allocations totalling €1.948 million were made to eighteen sporting organisations in Kildare.