Written answers

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Sports Capital Programme Applications Data

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason each sports capital appeal applicant was successful or unsuccessful for funding under the recently announced grants, by county, applicant, grant amount sought and grant amount awarded if successful in tabular form. [14619/18]

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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149 appeals were submitted in respect of the 2017 Sports Capital Programme (SCP) and of these, 35 were upheld. Appeals were upheld where the appellant demonstrated that the Department erred in its decision to make the application invalid, where it was agreed that the Department's guide to making an application was not sufficiently clear in relation to why the proposed project may be invalid, or where it was felt the original decision involved an overly strict interpretation of the SCP terms and conditions. Appeals were unsuccessful if it was felt that none of these conditions applied. All of these unsuccessful appellants have been given the reasons why their application remains invalid but have also been informed that they will be given the opportunity of simply submitting corrected documentation when the next round of the programme opens without the requirement of submitting a full new application.

A summary of the reasons why appeals were upheld or rejected for all 149 appeals is set out in the spreadsheet in the following link.

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