Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a timeframe for the publication of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund reserve list for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22924/25]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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On 4 November 2024, funding allocations under the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) were announced. The total amount of grants awarded under this second round was €173 million, benefiting 35 individual projects. With this announcement, the cumulative investment from the LSSIF since the first round in 2020 now totals €297 million.

Last year the LSSIF received an unprecedented demand for funding, amounting to €665 million from 96 applications. As a result of this significant demand, a range of valid applications did not receive an LSSIF allocation at the initial allocation stage.

In relation to LSSIF applications which have not received an allocation, a reserve list is being finalised by the Department, on which all remaining valid applications will be placed. I expect to publish the reserve list in the near future. Should additional LSSIF funding become available, projects on the reserve will be considered further.