Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

Now that the sports capital programme is so many years old and has provided so many thousands of infrastructural projects up and down the country we are examining the next round of that and how we can make it even more effective. One way to do that is to ensure facilities can embrace the educational system. That might be as simple as ensuring a facility is built on an adjacent site or in consultation with a school, or it might be more complicated. We are closely examining the notion that facilities built through the sports capital programme would be available to schools. We did not do this in the past because we were focused on providing the facilities for the clubs, agencies, towns and teams. In this round we can examine synergies between schools and the lottery funding.

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