There will be a competitive process for this. We will not be building stadiums all around Ireland. I want to get that message out. It is not financially possible to do that. Every application will have to come either from a local authority or a national governing body, or perhaps an education and training board. Those organisations then have to stand over the project and deliver it. Deliverability is key because, in the previous round, due to various factors, many of these projects are only starting to get delivered now and we had to give extra funding to the ones that were announced in 2020. Deliverability is key.
The other key point is participation. How does this project increase participation in sport in the area? How does it get people more physically active?
What I would suggest to anybody who is seeking to apply, that is, those bodies, is that they get to work shortly because we expect to open it soon. They can look at previous applications, if they were unsuccessful, but also the general template from the previous occasion. The template will be similar; it will not be the same. There is a lot of work to do to get those ready and I strongly encourage those who are interested to start looking at that.
I do not want to give people the expectation that somehow there will be a Colosseum in every town in Ireland. There will not be. What I hope to see out of this is a significant number of added sporting facilities that people can enjoy and participate in sport in.