Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 370: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme. [41077/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 371: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41078/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41079/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41080/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 374: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the individual score achieved by a club (details supplied) in County Wexford in consideration of the project for which it received grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41082/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 376: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason a different points system operates in County Wexford for projects for consideration under the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41083/08]

Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 377: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the basis on which the decision was made to allocate County Wexford €2,607,500 in funding in 2007 under the sports capital programme and almost €1.5 million less, that is €1,133,500 in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41084/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 370 to 377, inclusive, together.

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. Since 1998, over €725 million has been allocated to over 7,400 projects across the country.

Some 1,453 applications were received in 2008 seeking €296m. The Department assesses all applications received. For local projects, the level of funding to each county, including Wexford, is on the basis of a pro-rata distribution of the available funding on the basis of the population as set out in the 2006 census of population conducted by the Central Statistics Office, subject to the number, nature and quality of applications received for each county. The level of allocations therefore to successful local applicants in each county in 2007 and 2008 was primarily determined by the overall level of allocations available under the programme in those years for local clubs and the population of the county.

All applications from an individual county are assessed by one member of staff to ensure a consistent approach to applications from the county concerned. These assessments are then subject to quality proofing by more senior officers to the officer which conducted the initial assessment. Applications which meet the basic qualifying conditions each receive a score, which decides their order of priority within their own county. This system applies in each county.

The following table sets out, by reference to the relevant parliamentary question number, the scores of individual clubs sought by the Deputy: