Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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828. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a grant application by a person (details supplied) will be examined. [30042/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The number of applications for the Early Years and School Age Capital Programmes for 2018 was exceptionally high and therefore a number of high quality applications were not successful on this occasion. The appraisal phase of the 2018 programmes concluded in May 2018 and the budget has now been allocated in full.

All applicants who were unsuccessful under the 2018 Capital programmes had the opportunity to request a call-back conversation with Pobal to discuss their application and the appraisal process.

Applicants who remained dissatisfied with their outcome following this conversation, or felt that their application was appraised unfairly, were entitled to request that their application be reviewed by Pobal. Details of how to do this were provided in the correspondence sent to providers by Pobal upon the announcement of Capital decisions on 1st June 2018.

As part of this correspondence, all providers wishing to request a review were informed that they had 20 working days following the announcement of Capital decisions within which to submit a review request. Like the Capital appraisal process, the review process is managed by Pobal on behalf of my Department to ensure fairness and impartiality.

I understand that the service in question requested a feedback conversation with Pobal, which was provided by phone on 14th June 2018. A follow up email was also sent to the service on this date with a full synopsis of the feedback provided and information on how to request a review.

According to Pobal records, the service in question has not submitted a request for their application to be reviewed. Unfortunately, the deadline for submitting a review request to Pobal passed on 2nd July 2018.