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Sports Capital Programme Applications

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 December 2018

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Questions (29)

Martin Heydon

Question:

29. Deputy Martin Heydon asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of applications received from County Kildare for the sports capital programme; when he expects allocations to be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52202/18]

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The 2018 round of the Sports Capital Programme opened for applications on Friday 7 September and the application period closed on Friday 19th October. By that deadline, a record 2,337 applications were submitted seeking a total of €162m in funding. Sanction has been received to make allocations with a total value of €40m under this round.

98 applications were submitted for projects in County Kildare seeking €7m in grants. A list of all applications submitted, including those from County Kildare, are published on my Department's website http://www.dttas.ie/sport/english/sports-capital-programme.

186 of the total applications relate to projects deemed invalid under the 2017 round of the programme who have now submitted corrected documents. These applications are being assessed first and I hope to make allocations to this category of application later this year or early in 2019.

For the first time, applicants who have submitted incorrect documentation under this round will be given the opportunity to correct their application during the assessment period. While there will be no undue delay in completing the assessment process, in view of the opportunity to correct documentation, the record number of applications received and the detailed information contained in each application, it is likely to take a number of months to have all applications assessed. Accordingly, I expect that it will be at least the second quarter of next year before the full set of allocations under this current round of the programme are announced.

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