John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In my constituency, for example, in Bray, there are plans to develop a sports campus, to look at hockey, athletics, soccer and all those things, and to put in place facilities in west Wicklow. It is the only municipal district without a swimming pool. There are plans looking at developing a swimming pool, and a sports campus around it, but the stumbling block all the time is a lack of capital funding. What role does Sport Ireland have in that? What funding is available? Going through all the processes Dr. May talked about, we absolutely need all the statistics and all those reports, but they are only as good as the funding that comes through afterward. As I said, there have been plans for a sports campus in north Wicklow for the past five years. It has hit a brick wall. They are working on a swimming pool for west Wicklow, and different applications have been put in for it, but it has again hit a brick wall. Funding is needed to advance those critical sporting projects in constituencies. Wicklow is only one example. Its situation is replicated right across the State.