Written answers
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Sports Funding
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what supports will be available from her Department to community groups hoping to develop a community swimming pool; if a ringfenced funding stream will be included under the large-scale sporting infrastructure scheme; when she expects the next round of the LSSIF to open for new applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3605/24]
Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The National Sports Policy, which was published in 2018, provided for the establishment of a Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). The aim of the LSSIF is to provide Exchequer support for larger sports facility projects where the Exchequer investment would be greater than the maximum amount available under the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP).
The first call for proposals under the LSSIF closed in 2019 with new swimming pool projects and the refurbishment of existing swimming pools eligible to apply for LSSIF grant funding subject to published guidelines and regulations. The first LSSIF allocations were announced in January 2020 and thus far €124 million has been awarded to 33 different proposals including 8 swimming pool projects.
Minister Martin and I recently confirmed that a new round of the LSSIF will open for applications in the first half of 2024, with the dates, terms and conditions to be published on the Department’s website in due course. I would encourage all eligible projects to consider applying for this competitive application process when it opens later this year.
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