Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding allocated to applicants for the sports capital grant in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46726/21]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) 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 2020 round of the SCEP closed for applications on Monday, 1 March 2021. By the closing date, over 3,100 applications were submitted seeking over €200 million in funding. This is the highest number of applications ever received.

The scoring system and assessment procedures were published earlier this year and all applications are being assessed accordingly. Approximately one thousand of the submitted applications were for 'equipment-only' projects. These applications were assessed first and grants with a total value of €16.6 million were announced on 6 August. Full details of these allocations are available at www.gov.ie/en/collection/471ed5-sports-capital-allocations/. The remaining applications for capital works are now being assessed. Given the large number of applications received, this work is likely to take a number of months to complete with allocations expected to be announced before the end of this year.

In relation to older grants, all applications, allocations and payments under the Programme are published on a county basis on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/service/d13385-sports-capital-programme/#sports-capital-programme-applications-allocations-and-payments. A breakdown on a constituency basis is not readily available.