Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is always important. I thank Deputy Gould. As I indicated previously, we are in ongoing engagement with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on a package for sport this year. There was a very positive package last year of approximately €90 million, which included a club resilience fund. The fund was designed to support sporting organisations at grassroots level with some of their costs. We are engaging in discussions on a package for this year.

Whether it is a boxing club or other type of sports club, the sports capital and equipment programme is open to everyone to try to strengthen clubs. We had a record number of applications for funding this year. I am not sure whether the club to which Deputy Gould referred applied to that particular fund.

We are working with Sport Ireland to make sure we get as many people as possible back playing and participating in their clubs and being active now that sporting activity has reopened. I hope we will have pods of six involved in boxing from early July. Many indoor sports that have been restricted for such a long period will be able to reopen to a much greater extent, which will also improve participation. I thank Deputy Gould for tabling the question.

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