Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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597. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on the funding given under the various programmes or headings; if any of the allocated funding has been recouped or unspent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20404/22]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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My Department operates a number of schemes under which funding is made available to Local Authorities.

In relation to capital support for sports facilities, the Department operates three grants schemes; namely the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP), the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme (LASPP) and the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF).

The local authority in question has been allocated a number of grants under the SCEP in the period since 2017. Details of all allocations, including those made to this local authority, under the SCEP since 2002 are published .

While no new allocations were made to local authority in question under the LASPP since 2017, a number of payments were made since then. In this regard, total LASPP payments of €2,424,747 were made in respect of two Swimming Pools under the remit of this local authority to which the Deputy refers. 

No allocations have been made to the local authority in question under the LSSIF.

In relation to other schemes run by my Department, the following details of allocations are supplied in the table below.

While, as indicated in a number of instances actual spend/drawdown was less than the original amount allocated, I am advised that my Department has not had cause to seek recoupment of funds from the local authority in any instance.