Mr. Miche?l ? Conaire:

I suppose one of the benefits of the national digital database being developed by Sport Ireland is that it is capturing where facilities are across the country. At the same time, in a parallel process, Swim Ireland is conducting its own audit of all swimming facilities across the country. By the end of this year, we will have very good information on where swimming pools are, what level of access there is, and whether it is a private, local authority or community facility. As we develop that information, it will inform applications under sports capital programme and under the large scale sport infrastructure fund going forward. Officials in the Department will be able to see what the population levels are, what the demand is and what the current facilities are in a given area. That targeted approach, which comes back to the point made by the Cathaoirleach, will allow us to see those gaps across the country, so if there is a large swathe of a county that does not have a swimming pool or another sport facility, an astroturf or whatever, that will be apparent to us due to the work going on in developing these databases.