Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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158. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next payment will be made by his Department to the Solas project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32729/13]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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159. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when approval will be given to the Solas project to sign a contract for phase two of the Galway Art House Cinema project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32730/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 158 and 159 together.

My Department recently received a request for a further instalment of the capital grant for the Solas project. That application is currently being examined, and a payment will issue once all of the usual conditions for a grant payment have been satisfied.

The decision as to when approval will be given for permission to sign a contract for phase two of the Solas project will depend on a number of factors, including progress on phase one of the contract, and also progress on obtaining the required matching funding by the project promoters.