Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

What the Chairman is raising is part of a wider issue. We, as a Department, recognise there is a need for more and longer-term sustainable capital investment in sports infrastructure. Grants for the first round of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund were announced in 2020. We are now doing drawdown on that. We have had conversations with the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform about the potential of opening a second round. We are in the middle of talks with the Minister on that issue. It is that kind of large-scale funding that we, as a Department, would like to be able to do on a periodic basis every couple of years. In conjunction with the infrastructure map that is being developed by Sport Ireland, we could systematically fill the gaps in sports infrastructure around the country, with an emphasis on areas of disadvantage, facility sharing and participation.