Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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796. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide emergency funding to a leisure centre (details supplied) to carry out emergency works to the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11789/25]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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In the first instance, I would hope that sporting facilities’ own commercial insurance would cover the cost of restoring such facilities back to sporting use where they have been damaged by the recent adverse weather events.

Adequate insurance for facilities is a condition of capital funding granted by my department under either of its funding schemes, namely the Community Sport Facilities Fund and the Large-Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund.

I have asked Sport Ireland to engage with the Local Sports Partnerships in the worst-affected counties, to collate any such instances of weather damage that cannot be covered by insurance and / or other schemes, and to forward to my department an overview report for each county. When that is done, I intend to report back to government on the scale of the financial ask.