Are there application forms available from the Minister's Department for grants from this source? Furthermore, will the Minister inform the House what criteria are applied in determining whether applications should receive grant assistance from the national lottery?

The Deputy is extending the scope of this question.

Yes, but by way of answering the Deputy I should tell him that there are application forms available from my Department.

And the criteria?

If it is not written on the application form, certainly there is a separate leaflet that can be obtained, or the information will be made available to any applicant. I suggest that the Deputy gets the application forms first. I should add that it is quite a simple application form and has been deliberately framed in that manner.

Have Fianna Fáil Deputies sent them around the country?

We have received a fair amount of applications and their source has not been Fianna Fáil.

Question Time has become somewhat untidy.

Is the Minister monitoring them carefully?

Quite closely.

Can the Minister give the House an assurance that decisions are taken on a fair and equitable basis, not on the basis of which Fianna Fáil Deputy happens to make representations in support of certain applications because that impression is abroad, due largely to the action of certain members of the Minister's party ——

This is a difficult question ——

——about which those who subscribe to the national lottery are concerned at the abuse.

It has not been done that way by the Minister. It will be my intention that every single constituency will share in the range of amenities that will be grant-aided for the simple reason that every single parish in the country has contributed.

Would the Minister condemn that type of action?

Order, Deputy Mac Giolla has been called and will be heard.

I am not aware of such action at all.

The Minister should travel down to ——

Will Deputy Molloy please desist and allow Question Time to proceed in an orderly manner. Deputy Molloy usually ends up in a note of acrimony; is that not strange?

The Deputy has got very cross.