Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update for organisations on the large scale sport infrastructure fund reserve list. [34639/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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In 2024, the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (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.

Grants totalling €173 million, benefiting 35 individual projects, were allocated under the second round of the LSSIF in November 2024. With this announcement, the cumulative investment from the LSSIF since 2020 now reaches €297 million. My current focus is on ensuring delivery of projects granted funding under the first two rounds of the LSSIF and this process will inform any decisions regarding the timing of a future round.

Valid and eligible applications that did not receive funding under the 2024 LSSIF round are on a reserve list in the event that any additional funding becomes available. Any ordering or prioritisation of that reserve list will only be considered should additional funding become available. I would anticipate that such prioritisation of projects would be informed by alignment with the National Sporting Policy and other relevant policies such as the National Swimming Strategy.