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Sports Capital Programme.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2004

Tuesday, 15 June 2004

Questions (291, 292)

John Curran

Question:

342 Mr. Curran asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of funding granted to a football club, details supplied, under the sports capital programme; the amount of other funding it may have received from his Department; and the annual breakdown of this funding, that is, when it was allocated and when it was drawn down. [17609/04]

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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 club in question has been allocated three grants under the sports capital programme: €634,869 in 2000, €634,869 in 2001 and €1,300,000 in 2002. No other allocation of funding has been made to this club by my Department.

Of the funding allocated, €1,206,251 was paid to the club in 2001 and a further €1,235,000 was paid in 2002. These payments combined represent 95% of the total grants allocated; the remaining 5%, in this case €128,487, is retained in accordance with standard practice pending the receipt of certification of completion of the defects liability period of the project.

John Curran

Question:

343 Mr. Curran asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the funding allocated to the FAI and its affiliates on an annual basis under the sports capital programme since the programme commenced. [17610/04]

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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 advertised on an annual basis.

The Football Association of Ireland, the governing body for soccer in Ireland, has been allocated two sports capital grants of €225,000 in 2003 and €100,000 in 2004 towards the provision of equipment required for the FAI's development programmes.

I have listed below the funding allocations since 1998 to projects classified as soccer projects, which would include Eircom League clubs, district junior and schoolboy leagues and clubs and also some municipal community soccer facilities.

€ million

1998

0.89

1999

4.10

2000

6.92

2001

8.62

2002

19.98

2003

9.17

In relation to the 2004 sports capital programme, I announced on 7 May provisional funding allocations totalling €50.8 million, of which €8.05 million was to soccer projects. I will shortly be making further announcements under the 2004 programme in respect of funding for projects of major significance which, while meeting local needs, will also add considerably to the national and regional sporting infrastructure which is required both for increasing levels of participation and improving standards of performance.

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