Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 22: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will be in a position to reinstate funding for the grants to support sport in disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33414/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The funding referred to by the Deputy relates to funding provided through the Dormant Accounts Fund for the appointment of Sports Inclusion Disability Officers (SIDOs) in Local Sports Partnerships. The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government has overall responsibility for dormant accounts spending. The funding through my Department was an element of a larger set of economic and social disadvantage funding measures.

Any funding secured from the Dormant Accounts Fund is clearly time bound and the SIDO appointments were made on that basis. In 2010, the Irish Sports Council agreed a funding mechanism to ensure the continuation of the SIDO scheme beyond the dormant accounts funding.