Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am hopeful the Cavan project will be able to start and be completed. There have been active discussions between the Department and the promoters of the Cavan regional sports campus that Deputy Brendan Smith has been in touch with me a lot about. He is very committed to that project. We are very committed to that project as well. We did offer further funding during the summer to everybody. Almost all of the large scale sport infrastructure fund, LSSIF, recipients applied for further funding and I do hope to be in a position in due course to announce further funding. The idea of that funding would be to get these projects off the ground and I sincerely hope that it will. They had difficulties but they are really worthwhile projects that we want to see built. I know Deputy Brendan Smith and his colleagues in Cavan want to see this project completed as well.

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