Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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806. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on a sports capital application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39084/23]

Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The 2023 round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (2023) closed for applications last Friday (8th September). A preliminary examination of the submitted applications is now underway but it is clear that the Programme has again generated a very large number of applications including one from the organisation to which the Deputy refers.

Work is now underway on drafting the "Scoring Assessment and Assessment Manual" for the 2023 round and I hope to have this finalised in the coming weeks. Once this is published, the detailed assessment work can commence. In view of the volume of applications received, however, it will take several months to have the assessment process complete. In this regard, it is planned to assess the "Equipment-only" applications first with a view to announcing these grants in the coming months. Work will then commence on the assessment of the capital applications with the allocations likely to be announced later in 2024.