Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make funds available for a swimming pool at a location (details supplied) in County Dublin. [32909/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The current round of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme provides grant aid to a maximum of €3.8 million towards the capital costs of new swimming pools or the refurbishment of existing pools. The current round of the Programme closed to applicants on 31 July 2000 and no application was submitted by South Dublin County Council, on behalf of Lucan, by that date. As such it is not possible to make funding available under the current round of the programme for a swimming pool in Lucan. Given the current budgetary constraints, it is not intended to launch a new round of the Programme at this time. However, when a new round of the Programme is launched it will be open to all Local Authorities, including South Dublin County Council on behalf of Lucan, to submit an application under the terms that will apply.