Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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The Department currently operates two capital funding programmes for sport, namely the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) and the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). Both of these capital programmes are demand-driven.

The National Sports Policy, which was published in 2018, provided for the establishment of a Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). The first call for proposals under the LSSIF closed in 2019 with applications confined to local authorities and national governing bodies of sport. All applications were assessed in accordance with the published evaluation procedures and guidelines and the first allocations were announced in January 2020.

Approximately €124 million has been awarded to 33 different proposals to date including this project (design work only). The design element only of this project is being funded via a LSSIF Stream 1 grant allocation of €918,750.

Dublin City Council announced the approval of the Part 8 Planning Application for this project in February 2024. Dublin City Council has also signalled its intention to apply for construction funding, which will fall under a separate competitive application process, when a new round of the LSSIF opens for applications in the coming weeks.