Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Some 34 have been completed, 11 more are under construction and 12 others are at various stages, two preparing tenders, seven preparing contract documents and three are preparing preliminary reports. The scale of the programme over the past number of years has been extremely significant. I agree with the Deputy. If the resources are available to me, I would like to open a second round of swimming pool programmes. That will be a matter for discussion between me and the Minister for Finance as part of the Estimates process.

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