Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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608. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sports capital programme applications that were made in 2014; the number of these that were rejected; the reason for their rejection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49372/14]

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form by county basis the percentage of the sports capital programme fund allocated in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the total funds allocated by county in those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49373/14]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 608 and 609 together.

Information on allocations for the year in question is available on the Department's website.  

A total of 2,036 applications were received under the 2014 round of the Sports Capital Programme.  €40.5m was allocated to 880 separate projects. There were 736 invalid applications and 420 valid but unsuccessful applications.

Given the level of demand for funding and the amount of funding available under the Programme, it is unfortunately not possible to allocate grants to every valid application.

I do not consider it appropriate to publish details of why individual applications were deemed invalid. However applications were deemed invalid primarily for one or more of the following reasons:

- Title/Access requirements of the Sports Capital Programme not satisfied;

- Insufficient evidence of planning permission, planning application, or exemption from planning;

- Evidence of own funding not provided in prescribed format;

- Insufficient own funding.

All applicants were informed of the outcome of the assessment of their application, including details of why an application was deemed to be invalid.