Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation for the sports capital grant for 2018. [44361/17]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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Full details on the allocations for each of my Department's subheads for 2018 will be set out, as usual, in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV). The allocation will be sufficient to cover all existing commitments under previous rounds of the Sports Capital Programme (SCP) as well as new commitments under the 2017 round of the programme. In this regard, by the closing date of 24th February, a record number of 2,320 applications seeking €155 million in grants were received. When the programme was launched, it was envisaged that €30m would be available which would have made the allocation of grants particularly challenging. Following the conclusion of the budget discussions and in order to allow as many worthwhile projects as possible to receive some funding, I am pleased that significant extra resources have been secured to allocate under this round. The assessment of all the 2,320 applications is now nearing completion and I expect to be in a position to announce full details of the allocations in the coming weeks.