Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 40: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when the five year strategic plan to inform the future development of sporting facilities will be completed and published; the way, in the event of payments not being made under the sports capital programme during 2009, it is intended to allocate revenue from lottery ticket sales under section 5(1) of the National Lottery Act 1986; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14864/09]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Work on the five-year National Sports Facilities Strategy is at an advanced stage of preparation in my Department. It is my intention to publish the strategy once it has been completed and considered by the Government.

A provision of €56m has been made in the Vote of the Department for 2009 under subhead C1 for the payment of grants for sporting bodies and the provision of sports and recreational facilities, which includes the Sports Capital Programme. This provision is intended to meet commitments made under the Sports Capital Programme in 2008 and previous years. While the distribution of monies under the National Lottery Act is a matter for the Minister for Finance I would point out that the €56m provided to my Department is part funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery.