Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is not money from sport today. It is money not drawn on previous projects, which is part of the issue, and part of the reason we brought in the use it or lose it clause. On Kinsale in particular, I visited the centre with the Acting Chairman so I am familiar with the project. We said that all valid applications will be placed on the reserve list. I can confirm that the Kinsale project is valid. That will be funded at some point, as funding becomes available. On the mechanics of that, what is happening at the moment is the Department is focusing on the grants and grant agreements that have been awarded. A lot of work has to be done to get these out. In the coming weeks, or in a few months, the exact process for the reserve list will be set out for those on it. I expect it will be a dynamic process. I am not talking specifically about Kinsale, but if a project without planning permission gets planning permission, it is envisaged that the Department would become aware of that, and it would change the matrix for that particular project in showing how deliverable it is. In some of those projects there are other issues such as own funding, and in some cases land ownership. There are people out there complaining that their project did not get the go-ahead when the people behind the project do not even own the land. There are lots of things like that, so we cannot just award funding to some of them.