Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 472: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council application for funding for the refurbishment of the Dundrum family resource centre pool. [10626/05]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council applied for funding under the local authority swimming pool programme in 2000 in respect of a proposed replacement swimming pool for Dundrum. A revised proposal has recently been received from the council and is being considered in my Department at the preliminary report stage in the process.

There are four stages in the swimming pool development process: preliminary report, contract document, tender approval and construction. My Department's technical adviser, the Office of Public Works, evaluates each stage and local authorities cannot proceed to the next stage of a project unless prior approval issues from my Department.