Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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214. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a playgroup (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was not granted funding in the recent €2.75 million grants. [33960/13]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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215. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason capital grant aid was not provided for a centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34035/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 214 and 215 together.

The 2013 capital programme, for which €2.75 million was available, was highly oversubscribed, with 1372 applicants seeking in total over €6 million. Applications within each strand were scored on the quality and need for the application and on the deprivation score of the area according to the Pobal Haas index. It was not possible to grant aid everyone but I am pleased that nearly half of all applicants did receive funding. Pobal has provided the facility for all services to get feed back on their application by emailing a dedicated email address. The applicant will have been given full information on this process in the letter sent from Pobal.