Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide detail of all sports capital programme applications his Department received from County Limerick; the score awarded to each project arising from the assessment process; the criteria then applied to allocate funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30718/14]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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All applications received under the 2014 Sports Capital Programme were assessed by officials in the Department.  Every application was assessed by one official and reviewed by another member of staff. 

Applications were first checked to ensure eligibility and eligible applications were then initially scored against five criteria: 1 likelihood of increasing participation and/or improving performance and sharing of facilities; 2 level of socio-economic disadvantage in the area; 3 technical merits of the project; 4 level of own funding available; 5 level of Sports Capital Programme funding received in the past. These criteria were designed to give higher scores to applications that will increase participation, where facilities will be shared, that were from designated disadvantaged areas, that had not received substantial funding in the past and that were ready to be progressed as soon as possible.

In deciding the final allocations of funding to projects within each country Minister Varadkar and I had regard to a number of factors, including: the performance of each application during the assessment process; ensuring a geographical spread of projects within each county; ensuring an appropriate spread of projects between rural and urban areas within each county; and ensuring that there was a spread of projects among different sports

All applicants have now received details of the outcome of the assessment of their application as follows: where a grant has been allocated, the applicant has been given details of the terms and conditions that must be met to allow the grant to be drawn down; where an application was deemed valid but not funded, applicants has been given a copy of their assessment; and where an applications has been deemed invalid, applicants has been given details of the reason(s) their application was deemed invalid. The specific information sought by the Deputy in relation to applications from County Limerick will be provided to the Deputy directly.