Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Ms Katherine Licken:
The Deputy’s point about the growth of population is well made. One of the recommendations coming out of the review of the last round of the sports capital programme, which involved smaller-scale grants, is that we take account of population. In the case of a swimming pool in the Deputy’s constituency, it applied for funding under the last round of the large-scale sport infrastructure. Population growth will be one criterion and another is the priority a local authority might afford to a given project or how many projects a local authority might be wanting to support at any given time. I ask Mr. Ó Lionáin to come in a bit further on that. The point was well made around population and serving the population. We have not yet got a new round of the large-scale sport infrastructure. We are in discussions around the possibility of that.