Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 1151: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has decided upon a date for applications for sports capital funding for 2009; the plans he has to change the application form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30250/08]

Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 1156: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the closing date for applications in respect of grants under the sports capital programme to be paid out in 2009; the likely date for the provisional allocation of grants in 2009; when these dates fell in each year since the inception of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30503/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1151 and 1156 together.

Applications for funding under the 2008 Programme were invited through advertisements in the Press on 13 and 14 of January 2008 and the deadline for receipt of applications was 29 February for paper-based applications and 7 March for online applications. A list of grant allocations is available on the Department's website at www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie.

The date of the next round of the Programme has not yet been decided. While the contents of application form and the guidelines, terms and conditions are reviewed after each iteration of the Programme, no decision has been taken at this stage regarding revisions.

Since the establishment of the Department, the Sports Capital Programme allocations for local, regional and national projects have been announced on the dates set out in the table.