The national lottery funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sport clubs and to sporting and voluntary and community organisations at local, regional and national levels throughout the country. The programme is advertised on an annual basis.
Applications for funding under the 2005 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 5 and 6 December 2004. The closing date for receipt of applications was 4 February 2005. A total of 1,362 applications were received before that deadline, including 56 from organisations in County Tipperary. All the applications received are being evaluated against the programme's assessment criteria, which are outlined in the guidelines, and the terms and conditions of the programme. I intend to announce the grant allocations for the programme as soon as possible after the assessment process has been completed.