Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a club's application (details supplied) was deemed ineligible for sports capital funding. [53179/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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I can confirm that the organisation referred to applied for a grant under the 2017 Sports Capital Programme. 

When the 2017 Programme was advertised my Department issued a guide to filling out the application form which set out the Department’s minimum requirements that applicants had to meet to be considered for funding. 

While I do not think that it is appropriate to publish the specific reasons why individual applications were deemed invalid at this stage, applications were deemed invalid primarily for one or more of the following reasons:

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

- Evidence of own funding not provided in prescribed format;

- Insufficient own funding. 

All applicants have now been contacted with details of the outcome of the assessment of their application, including details of why applications were deemed invalid.Relevant organisations have also been informed that they may appeal these decisions if they believe that an error has been made in deeming their application invalid.