Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give details of any discussions he or any of his Cabinet colleagues have had in relation to a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the funding currently in place for the progression of this project; the potential sources of funding for the project; if he is in receipt of an application for funding from any of these sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28448/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Under previous rounds of the Sports Capital Programme no funding has been allocated toward the project referred to by the Deputy.

My Department has received an application for funding under the 2012 Sports Capital Programme for this project.

Departmental officials have started processing all applications received. This process will take some time, due to the volume of applications and the detailed information contained in each one. As a result, I do not expect to be able to announce the list of successful applicants before the late autumn or early winter 2012.

Under the current round of the Local Authority Swimming Pools Programme, which has been closed to new applicants since July 2000, a maximum grant of €3.8m is available for a swimming pool in Castlebar. There are four principal stages to be undertaken by the local authority in developing a swimming pool project. These are preliminary report, contract documents, tender documents and construction. Local authorities may not proceed to the next stage of a project until prior approval issues from the Department, and grant aid is formally allocated when the tender is approved. The preliminary report for a replacement pool in Castlebar was approved in April 2005. When contacted by the Department earlier this year, Mayo County Council indicated that contract documents would be ready in November 2012.

I have not held any discussions on the matter referred to by the Deputy.