Applications were sought under the 1999 sports capital programme at the end of 1998 and the closing date for the receipt of completed applications was 12 February 1999. No application has been received under the programme from the community band named by the Deputy.
However I understand that, in December 1995, prior to the establishment of my Department, the then Minister of State with responsibility for local development, then located in the Department of the Taoiseach, approved the payment of a grant of £40.000 on foot of a joint application by the Herberton Youth Club-Crumlin Academy of Music towards the development of a music academy in the youth club premises in Raleigh Square, Crumlin, Dublin 12.
It appears that the promoters have, to date, failed to raise the remainder of the funding required and that the project has not started as a result.
My Department is currently in consultations with the grant recipients and expects to hear shortly on the precise details of the refurbishment project and how the group now intends to proceed with the completion of the project.