Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand there is limited time and members want to ask questions.

We increased the budget by €26 million for 2021. We want to prioritise and support the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games with an increase in core funding. We have also increased funding in respect of the dormant accounts fund and have obtained a significant commitment on major events in the context of the Ryder Cup and developing the business case around the World Cup in 2030. There are a record number of applications for sports capital grants, with more than €200 million sought in funding, so we are assessing the more than 3,000 applications.

We are ambitious about turning the national sports campus into the home of sport in Ireland and we are going through a national development plan process around that, but there are also other pillars of funding in the large-scale sports infrastructure fund and the sports capital fund, so we will try seriously to scale up investment in sport over the coming years.

I thank everyone for their time and attention and am happy to take questions. I have to leave early because the Business Committee has been called at 5 p.m., so I will try to stay on as long as possible after then.