Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

On the question about the SCEP, I emphasise it is an adaptive programme. There is a continual series of reviews, so the programme has evolved a lot in the past couple of decades. On the Deputy's specific points, if he looks at the Minister's announcements on this and previous rounds, he will see there is a strong focus on disadvantage and enhanced scoring for DEIS areas. One of the new areas we are focusing the current round of the programmes on is enhanced scoring for applications that provide for equal access for females and males. One other thing I will point to is that going forward, Sport Ireland has developed a facilities database. It was launched only a month or two ago and it has been continually added to. That will give us yet another tool to identify areas of greatest infrastructural deficit in the country. It gives exciting possibilities for future rounds of both capital programmes, the SCEP and the LSSIF.