Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 46: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he intends to announce an increase in the funding under the sports tourism capital grants for swimming pools that will enable communities around the country to provide such essential and worthwhile facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25761/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is completing a Value for Money and Policy Review Report of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme at present. The Report is examining, among other things, how the programme has worked to date and what changes, if any, are required to ensure its effective and efficient delivery. The grant level for swimming pools is also examined in the report.

Thereafter, following consideration of the recommendations in the Report, it is my intention to launch a new round of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme. There is a provision of €184m in the National Development Plan, 2007-2013 in respect of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme.