Mr. Miche?l ? Conaire:

A large-scale sport infrastructure fund was established in 2019. The first allocation was €88 million for 33 projects, including a number of League of Ireland projects. The double whammy of cost price inflation and the pandemic delayed many of them. We are only now seeing a number of them taking off. In August the Department wrote to all of the successful applicants asking them to apply for top-ups where there was a particular need. We are assessing these at present. There will be announcement on this shortly.

The Ministers are engaging on a new round of the large-scale sport infrastructure fund. We hope a new round will open in the coming years.