Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

I will refer to both the LSSIF and the sports capital programme, which the Deputy raised earlier. On the LSSIF, local authorities can specifically pitch under it. For instance, there were a number of applications from Cork. We hope that we might get sanction to proceed with a second round of the LSSIF in the not-too-distant future, and of course then, it would be quite open to the local authorities in Cork to come back to us on that.

On the specifics of ongoing engagement with the local authorities, that is something we do, and as it happens, the Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Thomas Byrne, will meet the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien next week to discuss how to improve and deepen that, and so on.

Finally, on the sports capital programme, the Deputy asked about colocation of schools and sports facilities. We actively encourage that. Schools can apply, once they are applying with a sports club. In terms of value for money, where a sports facility can be colocated with a school that is of benefit to the kids during the day and the local community during the evening, that is something that we would very much support.

In both areas, we are actively focused on these issues.