Written answers
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Sports Capital Programme Applications Data
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide feedback on applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48284/19]
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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The Sports Capital Programme is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country.
The 2018 round of the Sports Capital Programme closed for applications on Friday 19th October 2018. By the closing date, 2,337 applications were submitted seeking a total of €162m in funding. This was the highest number of applications ever received. 186 of these applications were for projects that were deemed invalid under the 2017 round of the programme that subsequently submitted corrected documents. These applications were assessed first and approximately €7m in allocations to 170 projects were announced on the 17th January. 619 equipment only applications were assessed next and 466 allocations with a value of €9.8m were announced to these organisations in May. The final allocations for capital works were announced in the last week with a total of €39.5m allocated to 1,009 projects.
My Department will be writing to all applicants, including the organisations referred to by the Deputy, in the coming days with details of the outcome of the assessment of their application. All unsuccessful applicants will also be invited to appeal the Department's decision if they believe that their application was not correctly assessed according to the published assessment manual.
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