Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

I thank the Deputy. The organisation to which the Deputy referred, for instance, along with a range of other organisations, gets core funding from Sport Ireland, which is really an assistance to it to help to run the organisation. That has nothing to do with capital. Each review round of the sports capital programme that is done by the officials in my Department takes the lessons learned. We had 3,000 grants that went out last time. Issues arise all the time in every round as sport evolves so those lessons are learned and addressed in the next round. There was engagement with Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport, which is the umbrella for all of the sports organisations. They get feedback on what worked well and what worked less well. There also would have been engagement with Cara, which is the disability umbrella group. That is all fed back into the mix and the officials in the Department make recommendations to the Minister. This is a very standard process. As I said earlier, a review that was done of the sports capital programme, to which the Deputy referred, showed that it is transparent and robust. Our aim is to maintain funding at an appropriate level into the future.