Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding for sports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26231/14]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Details of all allocations under the Sports Capital Programme are available on the Department’s website . The Department has not made a payment of sports capital monies to Basketball Ireland since 2006. In 2008 an allocation of €500,000 was made to Basketball Ireland but this allocation has subsequently been withdrawn. The Sports Capital Programme does not fund the cost of the hire of halls.

The Irish Sports Council, which is funded by my Department, provides grant funding to Basketball Ireland through its core grant funding programme for National Governing Bodies of Sport. Funding of €564,048 is being provided to Basketball Ireland under this programme in 2014. Core grant funding is used for current expenditure purposes relating to the administration of a national governing body and would include costs such as salary costs, office expenses, insurance, audit, events, programmes, coach education, strategic planning and competition costs.

The Council is providing a further €118,000 to Basketball Ireland from its Women in Sport programme.  

Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts made by his Department to promote indoor sports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26232/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Sports Council, which is funded by my Department, is the statutory body with responsibility for the promotion, development and co-ordination of sport. I have referred the Deputy's question to the Council for direct reply in relation to the efforts it is making to promote indoor sports. I would ask the Deputy to inform my office if a reply is not received within 10 days.

I am pleased to inform the Deputy that Government funding of €13m has been provided to the National Sports Campus Development Authority this year to commence the development of a National Indoor Training Arena at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown, Blanchardstown. The Arena is one of the few remaining major pieces of national sporting infrastructure for elite athletes which is still outstanding. It will incorporate a National Indoor Athletics Training Centre, National Gymnastics Training Centre and National Indoor Training Centre (multi-sports hall). The arena will cater for approximately 26 national sports and as well as providing world-class training facilities for Irish sport, it will allow smaller sporting bodies the potential to host their competitions at local, regional, national and international levels.

Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding sports funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26234/14]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available and to compile it would require a disproportionate amount of time.  Details of allocations under the Sports Capital Programme are available on the Department’s website