Ms Katherine Licken:

I will ask my colleague, Cian Ó Lionáin, to come in more detail on this. What I would say is there is provision for the Department to carry over funding under the public spending code. A percentage of its capital funding can be carried over from one year to the next. We carried over €7.6 million from 2020 into 2021. Just because the year ends, it does not mean projects lose their funding. The commitment to funding them remains. Covid played havoc with the ability of some of the sports clubs to draw down their money to get matched funding and construction contracts in place. I will ask Mr. Ó Lionáin to give more detail, but when a grant is in place, it continues. Whether it is this year or next year, the commitment to the grant continues and if there is a question of a project not being able to draw it down, we engage very extensively. Ultimately, we would take the grant back, eventually, but only as a last resort.