Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport
9:00 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
There was a very significant shortfall in the money we had available to pay out in grants under the swimming pools programme. This is a small number of projects in regard to the various swimming pools projects that were allocated funding previously. It is very much a demand-led programme so we pay out on the basis of stage payments or completion of works in regard to the projects themselves and we can only do that as we receive those funding requests. There were delays in a number of those projects. What we have done more recently is we have looked at the funding available and we put out a call for submissions in regard to other swimming pool projects that could be funded. Three of those were considered and funding was applied to two of them. That is the approach we took last year in responding to the fact that funding was not being drawn down.
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