Written Answers. - Sports Capital Programme.
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Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason the Kilmeedy development group, County Limerick, was ineligible for a grant under the sport and recreation grants for 2003. [23490/03]
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism (Mr. O'Donoghue): The national lottery-funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The programme is run on an annual basis.
The 2003 sports capital programme was advertised in the national newspapers on 23 and 24 March 2003. The closing date for receipt of applications was 25 April, before which a total of 1,337 applications were received. However, rather than being ineligible for a grant as suggested by the Deputy, no application was received from any organisation of the name given by the Deputy, nor indeed from any organisation from Kilmeedy.
All allocations under the 2003 sports capital programme have now been made. It is open to the organisation in question, should it wish to do so, and should it have a project which satisfies the terms and conditions of the programme, to submit an application to the 2004 sports capital programme when that scheme is publicly advertised.