The national lottery funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, provides funding to voluntary organisations at local, regional and national level towards the provision of sporting and recreational facilities.
Under the sports capital programme 2001, details of which are available on the Department's website, www.gov.ie/tourism-sport, projects had to be directly related to the provision of sport and recreation facilities and be of a capital nature, which, for the purpose of the programme, relates to expenditure on the improvement or construction of an asset and includes any costs directly incurred in this process.