Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 September 2021
240. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department will review a sports capital scheme application by a club (details supplied) due to the circumstances; if her Department has noted previous issues with the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44519/21]
View answerI understand the club referred to by the Deputy has received a number of grants under past rounds of the Sports Capital Programme and all have been fully drawn down with the exception of a 2018 grant for €52,909. The 2018 grant remains at ‘provisionally allocated’ stage as the required supporting documentation has not been provided to allow the grant to progress to ‘formal approval’ stage.
The club has also submitted an application under the 2020 round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme. This application will be assessed in accordance with the scoring system and assessment procedures published earlier this year. Approximately one thousand of the submitted applications for the 2020 round were for "equipment-only" projects. These applications were assessed first and grants totaling €16.6m were announced on the 6th August.
The remaining applications for capital works, including the application from the club in question, are now being assessed. Given the large number of applications received, this work is likely to take a number of months to complete with allocations expected to be announced before the end of this year.
