James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The questions we are asking this morning are to get a picture of when we will know about the next round of sports capital grants. As I outlined earlier, it is very important that we have forward planning. The Government, I hope, has slightly more than two years left prior to the next general election. I would love to be in a position while we are in government be able to visit, with my constituency colleague, Deputy Stanton, the sports clubs in our constituency to ask what help and assistance they want with sports capital grants. We are very proud to see the impact of the project the Government undertook with the previous sports capital grants programme and the equipment grant programme. They have been superb. It would be fantastic to get an indication of when the next round will be brought forward.

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