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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: I am acutely aware of the difficulties and challenges faced by sports organisations, particularly regarding the rules on spectators. Measures introduced by the Government to date that have benefited the sports sector include the temporary wage subsidy scheme. There has been extensive engagement with the sports sector over recent months, and this has highlighted the significant adverse...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: The GAA and many sports organisations have done excellent work in ensuring compliance and participation in sport. As the Deputy knows, the resilience roadmap tries to ensure that people participate in sport and are physically active. We must also consider the mental well-being of all our population, including young people, and that is why sport is being properly and directly funded by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: Spectator attendance at large purpose-built event facilities is being considered. Specific guidance is being developed with the relevant organisations and sectors to take account of the size and differing conditions for events such as large national and international sporting events. I understand that the expert group on the return to sport is considering comprehensive proposals in that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: As I referred to earlier, we are committed to ensuring that we have equality action plans across all the governing bodies. The review, which is being concluded, is examining many criteria around the previous plan. That will be updated in the next round but I take the Deputy's point on that. The programme for Government states that we will prioritise sports capital investment in areas of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: On the first point, having had the review we are finalising the criteria. That will be published when we finalise the weighting that will be attached to many different but important areas. The sports capital programme, and its continuity, is committed to in the programme for Government. We are engaged in budgetary discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pool Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy has received some local knowledge there. This is a serious issue. Many funding allocations were made at the start of this year under the LSSIF and they are being fed through. We are committed to reviewing progress in 2021 with a view to potentially reopening for applications to include swimming pool projects like that in Carrickmacross, as referred to by the Deputy. We want to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pool Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: We recognised the importance of swimming pools in the July stimulus. Some €2.5 million was announced to support them, to continue their operation throughout the pandemic and to provide increased capacity for such facilities. The programme for Government and the national sports policy refer specifically to the importance of facilities that are run by local authorities. The reason we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: The sports capital programme is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Over 12,000 projects have benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total allocation since that time to close to €1 billion. The programme has transformed the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pool Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: I have relations in Monaghan and the Minister, Deputy Martin, is from the county. The local authority swimming pool programme, LASPP, provided grant aid towards the capital cost of new swimming pools or the refurbishment of existing pools. To date, 52 pools have been completed and three swimming pool projects remain in the LASPP. Exchequer support for any new swimming pool is now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: As I referenced, the stimulus package provides a significant amount of support for the FAI. The association, through Sport Ireland, will fund the League of Ireland and many other sporting competitions. The chief executive officer of the FAI, at a meeting of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response, indicated that €3.5 million is required to stage the League of Ireland. Funding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: We will engage with League of Ireland clubs through the FAI and Sport Ireland. As I said, a significant funding package has been put in place which will be allocated and distributed over the month of October. That is €40 million for the three major sporting bodies. Decisions about how that money is specifically allocated by those sporting organisations is a matter for them but the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: I am acutely aware of the difficulties and challenges facing all sporting organisations and clubs, including those in the League of Ireland. Measures introduced by the Government to date which have benefited the sports sector include the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, the PUP and a series of enterprise supports. There has been extensive engagement with the sports sector over recent...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Football Association of Ireland (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: The Government has dedicated funding for women's sport over many years with considerable Exchequer funding allocated to programmes aimed at encouraging women's active and social participation in sport. I would highlight in this regard the Sport Ireland women in sport programme established in 2005 which has provided funding for sport of more than €20 million to a broad range of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Football Association of Ireland (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: I have not read the book yet but I have read many of the articles associated with it. The Deputy is correct in how the funding allocation occurred over many years. To be clear, we will engage seriously with the FAI and Sport Ireland on this. We have seen leadership across many other associations. The programme for Government is specific around targets. The national sports policy asks...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Football Association of Ireland (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: Tennis has shown much leadership in equality, particularly around the majors. It is probably one of the few sports which has shown real equality. I support that as well as those associations in football which are doing that. The promotion of women's participation in sport is a policy priority for the Government and includes women's football. There has been extraordinary participation...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that statements and questions and answers on the leaving certificate 2020 calculated grades shall be taken today immediately following a 15-minute sanitisation sos which shall follow the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 - Second Stage, and the statements and questions and answers shall be confined to a single round which shall not...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pleanáil Teanga (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: Tá plean teanga Chathair na Gaillimhe curtha faoi bhráid mo Roinne ag Foras na Gaeilge le tamall agus á bhreithniú faoi láthair. Tuigim ó mo chuid oifigigh go raibh comhfhreagras idir iad agus Foras na Gaeilge, atá freagrach as maoirsiú a dhéanamh ar an scéal sa chás seo, ina thaobh le deireanaí. Táim ag súil le moladh...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: My Department, under its Irish Language Support Schemes, provides funding for various Irish language organisations and projects, to support and encourage youth development through the medium of the Irish language. The grants are aimed primarily at organisations or groups operating outside the Gaeltacht. My Department has provided current and capital funding to TechSpace (Camara Education)...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Island Communities (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: My Department provides financial support to build or upgrade community, language and recreational facilities in Gaeltacht areas through its Community and Language Supports Programme. Under this programme, I recently allocated €424,462 - equivalent to 90% of the total cost - to Comhlacht Forbartha Inis Meáin to enable them to begin works on the development of a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (1 Oct 2020)

Jack Chambers: Mar is eol don Teachta, is cúram don Roinn Tithíochta, Pleanála agus Rialtas Áitiúil, agus na húdaráis áitiúla atá faoina stiúr, cúrsa tithíochta trí chéile lena n-áirítear tithíocht agus pleanáil tí sa Ghaeltacht.  Is i gcomhréir leis na forálacha ábhartha san Acht um...