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

It is split between the three main governing bodies for the field sports, the other governing bodies, and the club resilience fund for clubs. The resumption of sport and physical activity fund is targeted through many local sports partnerships. It also looks at opportunities around additional physical activity in hard-to-reach groups, such as those in disadvantaged areas, people with disabilities and indoor sports as well. A similar scheme was run through the local sports partnerships last year. I can provide the funding amount for that. Last year, in the Covid-19 package that we funded, €3 million went to local sports partnerships schemes for small grants for clubs and community groups and innovation and restart schemes. More than 1,600 clubs benefited from that across 28 local sports partnerships. We also had supports for disabilities, older adults supports and a restart and renewal fund. It will be similarly funded this year. There are opportunities in areas of biggest impact. This year, we want to avoid the scarring effect particularly among indoor sports. There will be a big emphasis on indoor sports that were closed for the majority of the last 15 or 16 months, as members know. We want to limit the scarring effect on that. There will be targeted support through the local sports partnerships and the governing bodies. That is why we are running this through a number of funding streams.