Mr. Noel Sheahan:

I will come in on the question of grants for large-scale projects. I probably touched on this briefly in my earlier answer. In January of this year, we announced the first allocation. As the Deputy knows, the large-scale sport infrastructure fund is a new scheme. The first allocations were made in January, when a total of €82 million was allocated to 32 different projects. All of these are still going through a due diligence process. Different schemes are at different stages of readiness. There are two streams to the fund. Stream 2 is for projects that are more or less ready for construction while stream 1 relates to ideas for projects which local authorities or national governing bodies may have. We are more or less there with regard to due diligence; we are just seeking final sign-off from our legal advisers, the Chief State Solicitor's office. We will then issue grant agreements in respect of projects that have passed that stage of the process.

Anecdotally, we have not been told that any projects will not happen. Some concern has been expressed in our engagements with the bigger national governing bodies that a certain amount of their own resources had to be provided, which is a requirement of the scheme. As members will have all heard this morning, Covid has hit the financial projections of all the national governing bodies. There is no suggestion that any of the projects will not happen but I suspect that some may be on ice or not advancing as quickly as was initially envisaged. We had always planned to sit down with the bodies after a certain stage to go through all 32 projects and to get updates.

Next year, we might examine whether these projects are proceedings, whether there is scope for reallocating to the particular national governing body or local authority or even, in the longer term, whether it is time to open up a new round of the large scale sport infrastructure fund, LSSIF, again. We are keeping it under review. I am not aware of any projects that will not proceed.