Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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457. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown by category of the estimated expenditure on sports and recreation services in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30041/14]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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 According to the Revised Estimates Volume, Sports and Recreation Services includes three subheads, namely, D3 Grants for sporting bodies and the provision of sports and recreational facilities  (i.e. Sports Capital Programme), D4 Grants for provision and renovation of swimming pools (i.e. Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme) and D5 Irish Sports Council/National Sports Campus (Grant-in-aid).

The amounts in the subheads for 2014 are D3 €23m, D4 €10.3m and D5 €60.136m. D5 includes a current allocation of €44.236m of which €42.496m is to the ISC and €1.74m is to NSCDA, as well as a capital allocation of €15.9m to National Sports Campus (which includes €13m in stimulus funding for the national indoor arena).