Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the successful recipients of the sports capital grant for 2019 will be announced. [3025/19]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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The 2018 round of the Sports Capital Programme opened for applications on Friday 7 September and the application period closed on Friday 19th October.  By that deadline, a record 2,337 applications were submitted seeking a total of €162 m in funding. 

187 of these applications are for projects originally deemed invalid under the 2017 round of the programme but who submitted corrected documents.  These applications were assessed first and last week I was delighted to announce allocations to 170 of these projects with a total value of €7 m.  Details of all these project are published on my Department’s website at  .

The assessment of the remaining new applications will now proceed. For the first time, applicants who have submitted incorrect documentation under this round will be given the opportunity to correct their application during the assessment period. While there will be no undue delay in completing the assessment process, in view of the opportunity to correct documentation, the record number of applications received and the detailed information contained in each application, it is likely to take a number of months to have all applications assessed. Accordingly, I expect that it will be at least the second quarter of this year before the full set of allocations under this current round of the programme are announced.