Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 March 2017
169. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry did not qualify for capital funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10873/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Arts and Culture Capital Scheme was considerably over-subscribed. The Department received 106 applications in total under Stream 1 and 2 seeking total funding of over €20m with eligible requests for funding totalling over €14.6m.
A total of 56 projects were selected for funding of €9m based on the detailed selection criteria and eligibility requirements which were published in the Guidelines of the Scheme.
Unfortunately the application to which the Deputy refers did not attain a sufficiently high score relative to those of other projects to be offered funding. My Department has written to inform the project promoter of the Stream 3 small capital grant scheme for arts and cultural facilities which I will be announcing shortly.
