Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 95: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding an application for funding for the provision of a swimming pool in Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25117/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The current round of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme was closed to applications on 31 July 2000 and no application was made in respect of a public swimming pool for Lucan before that date. The priority under the current round is to continue to support those projects remaining within the programme. Of the 57 projects with the current round, 34 have been completed, 11 are under construction or about to start construction, 2 are out to tender and the remaining 10 are at various stages in the process.

A sum of €184m has been provided in the National Development Plan 2007-2013 for supporting existing projects in the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme and for new projects to be selected following the launch of a new round of the Programme. The terms and conditions of a new round will be devised taking into account the recommendations of the Value for Money and Policy Review report on the existing Programme which has been completed by the Department and which will be published shortly.

The launch of the new programme will be a matter for discussion as part of the Estimates process which will start shortly between this Department and the Department of Finance. When the Programme is re-opened, it will be open to all local authorities including South Dublin County Council, on behalf of Lucan, to submit applications under the terms that will apply.