Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can confirm receipt of an application for grant-aid under the sports capital programme from a club (details supplied) in County Mayo; and when it is expected funding will be allocated to these applicants. [53274/23]

Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The latest round of the SCEP (2023) closed for applications on Friday 8 September 2023. A preliminary examination of the submitted applications demonstrates that the Programme has again generated a large number of applications, including one from the club referenced by the Deputy, and it is evident that the total number of applications will exceed the previous record of 3,106 applications submitted under the last (2020) round.

Work is now underway on finalising the "Scoring and Assessment Manual" for the 2023 round and I hope to have this published shortly. Simultaneously, I also plan to publish the full list of all applications received by county including the relevant sport type for each application received. Once these documents are published, the detailed assessment work can commence. In this regard, it is planned to assess the "equipment-only" applications first and announce these grants in the coming months. Work will then commence on assessing the capital applications with the allocations likely to be announced later in 2024.