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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The Community Sports Facilities Fund, (formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Fund), is the primary means of providing Government funding to sport and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The Programme aims to foster an integrated and planned approach to the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and assists the purchase of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) was established under the National Sports Policy, published on 25 July 2018, to provide Exchequer support for larger sports facility projects, typically those requiring investments greater than the maximum available under the Community Sport Facilities Fund (formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme). Grants totalling...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Olympic Council of Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The National Olympic Committee for Ireland is the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) and it is an independent and autonomous organisation. Neither I nor my department have any function in relation to the OFI's engagement with the International Olympic Committee. I have not had any engagement with the OFI regarding the matter raised by the deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Olympic Council of Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: For the Paris Olympic cycle 2021-2024, the Government provided a record-level investment of approximately €89 million towards high performance sport. This was a substantial increase on the €59 million invested for the previous Tokyo Olympic cycle 2017-2020. In line with the Government’s target of delivering €30 million per annum for high performance sport by 2027,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The Community Sports Facilities Fund, CSFF (formerly the Sports Capital and equipment Fund – SCEP), is the primary means of providing Government funding to sport and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The Programme aims to foster an integrated and planned approach to the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Storm Éowyn caused widespread damage across the country including to damage sports facilities. In the first instance, I would hope that sporting facilities’ own commercial insurance would cover the cost of restoring such facilities back to sporting use where they have been damaged adverse weather events. Adequate insurance for facilities is a condition of capital funding...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: On foot of a record level of funding and of grantees under the most recent 2023 round of the Community Sport Facilities Fund, the Sports Capital Division within my Department is dealing with a significant volume of applications for formal approval and payments. This is impacting on the turnaround of such applications which are being systematically processed. The Department expect to be in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Over a quarter of a billion euro was allocated to 3,048 community sports clubs and facilities in 2024 from the 2023 round of the Community Sport Facilities Fund (CSFF), formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme, representing the largest-ever investment in sports facilities in communities across Ireland. In line with previous rounds of the programme, a review of the current...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: A total of €8,912,780 was drawn down drawn by successful applicants in County Carlow and County Kilkenny in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 under the Community Sports Facilities Fund (formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme). A total of €3,643,250 was drawn down for projects in Carlow and €5,369,530 for projects in Kilkenny. The attached...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Female participation in sport is an important element of both the National Sports Policy 2018-2027 and its associated Sports Action Plan 2024-2027 and represents a core priority for me and my Department. This Government is committed to a "Sport for All" approach aimed at ensuring that all persons can partake equally in sport and physical activity, regardless of gender, age,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Government investment in sport is essential to increasing participation levels in all sports, across all sectors of society. When the National Sports Policy was published in 2018, it set a commitment to double investment in sport to more than €220 million by 2027. The funding allocation for sport this year will be over €230 million. This means that, two years ahead of schedule,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (29 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Funding not exceeding €15,000 was approved in June 2022 to enable Nascadh Uíbh Ráthaigh to prepare a Language Plan for that area of Uíbh Ráthaigh situated outside the official Gaeltacht boundaries and outside the Gaeltacht Service Town of Cahersiveen. This grant was approved in line with the commitment made in the Government’s 2018-2022 Action Plan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (29 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 373, 374 and 375 together. The Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) was established to provide exchequer support for larger sports facility projects, typically those requiring investments greater than the maximum available under the Community Sports Facilities Fund (formerly the Sports Capital & Equipment Programme). The first round of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Geoghegan for raising this issue. I was delighted to attend the Federation of Irish Sport annual awards last week and see the great progress that so many of our national governing bodies were doing. The Government is committed to continuing the pathway we have been on, which is significantly increasing funding for sports to the national governing bodies but particularly to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Broadcasting Sector (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. At the outset, I wish to make clear that online news media, as the Senator knows, is not regulated by Coimisiún na Meán but rather falls under the remit of the Press Council, whose membership includes a number of online-only news publications, which subjects these publications to the Press Council’s code of practice. Complaints...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Broadcasting Sector (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Senator. As I have set out, the Broadcasting and Other Media Regulation Acts 2009 and 2022 set out the regulatory framework for implementation by Coimisiún na Meán in respect of broadcasters and providers of audiovisual on-demand media services, as well as online safety in respect of user-generated content. While there are important statutory duties and code-making...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Tá taighde ar na féidearthachtaí i dtaobh forbairt uirlisí intleachta saorga – a chuirfeadh le soláthar seirbhísí as Gaeilge don phobal – ar siúl faoi láthair faoi scáth Phlean Digiteach na Gaeilge de chuid na Roinne Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail agus Gaeltachta agus Seirbhísí Poiblí Níos Fearr de chuid na...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Is comhlacht reachtúil neamhspleách é Údarás na Gaeltachta agus mar sin ní bheadh ??ról ag an Aire mar a bhaineann sé le hoibríochtaí an Údaráis ó lá go lá, lena n-áirítear oibríochtaí na heagraíochta mar a bhaineann sé le feachtais mhargaíochta. É sin ráite, tá...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Over a quarter of a billion euro was allocated to 3,048 community sports clubs and facilities in 2024 from the 2023 round of the Community Sport Facilities Fund (CSFF), formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme, representing the largest-ever investment in sports facilities in communities across Ireland. In line with previous rounds of the programme, a review of the current...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Sport Ireland, which is funded by my Department, is the statutory body with responsibility for the development of sport, increasing participation at all levels and raising standards, including the allocation of funding across its various programmes. Sport Ireland does not provide direct funding for clubs or individuals but channels the funding through its network of Local Sports Partnerships...