Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of restoring funding to the sports capital programme to 2008 levels. [23390/18]

Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of increasing funding to the sports capital programme by 1%, 2%, 3% and 5%, respectively. [23391/18]

Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation to the sports capital grant scheme in each of the years 2008 to 2018; and the distributions to sports bodies and associated allocations in 2016, 2017 and 2018. [23395/18]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 540, 541 and 545 together.

Details of all allocations under the Sports Capital Programme (SCP) since 1998 and all payments since 2007 are available on my Department's website http://www.dttas.ie/sport/english/sports-capital-programme.  There were annual rounds of the SCP from 1998-2008. Subsequent to this there were new rounds of the SCP in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017. I hope to make an announcement in relation to a 2018 round of the SCP in the coming weeks.

Due to the nature of the SCP, it can take some grantees a number of years to draw down the grants allocated to them. Accordingly, the amount required in the relevant subhead to cover drawdowns under the programme does not equate to the allocations made in that particular year.  In 2008, €50.25 million was allocated whereas a total of €62.168 million was allocated in respect of applications under the 2017 round of the programme.  The amounts allocated under each of the general rounds of the SCP since 2008 are set out in the table below.

The SCP sub-head contains €49 million this year and this is sufficient to meet all existing commitments under the programme including the allocations under the 2017 round.  The cost of increasing this 2017 sub-head amount by 1%, 2%, 3% and 5% is set out in the table below.

The Department moved to a new IT system in 2014 which provides a single system for managing all aspect of the SCP. Details of all grants allocated directly to the National Governing Bodies of Sport since 2016 are set out in the table below.  Separately, thousands of individual clubs and other units at county and provincial levels which are affiliated to the various National Governing Bodies have received SCP funding over the years and all such grants are available on the website.