Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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711. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to engage with various Ministers to provide a once off stand alone grant to a sports and leisure complex in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29905/25]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Storm Éowyn caused widespread damage across the country including to damage sports facilities. 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 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.

In the aftermath of Storm Eowyn, Sport Ireland has engaged 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 exercise is complete, I intend to submit a report to government.