Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 408: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the delay in the completion of a deed of covenant which would enable work to proceed on the re-development of a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 18, for which funding has been provided and all other preparations have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27767/09]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The local authority in question was allocated €250,000 under the Sports Capital Programme 2007 towards upgrading an old cinder pitch to synthetic grass, with floodlighting and fencing. My Department wrote to the grantee on 19 December 2008 seeking a licence agreement to ensure that the grant assisted facility will be available for community use. The grantee in turn wrote my Department on 19 June 2009 and stated the agreement would be forwarded when it has been signed and sealed. When the licence agreement is received by my Department, it will be examined promptly and, if is found to be satisfactory, instructions will issue to the Chief State Solicitor's Office in respect of the appropriate legal security required to protect the taxpayer funding being provided under the Programme. In the interim, my Department has written again to the grantee on 3 July 2009 seeking, inter alia, copies of tenders and of the final planning permission for the project.