Ivor Callely
Question:83 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the estimated costs associated with Sports Campus Ireland; and if he will give a breakdown of all allocated funds for this project. [11599/01]
Written Answers - National Sports Stadium.
Michael Noonan
Question:98 Mr. Noonan asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the costs incurred to date in respect of the Stadium Ireland project. [10522/01]
Bernard J. Durkan
Question:559 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the current proposed capacity of the proposed national stadium; and the anticipated total cost [12393/01]
Frances Fitzgerald
Question:561 Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the amount of money spent so far on Stadium Ireland; and the amount committed to date. [12465/01]
Bernard J. Durkan
Question:587 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the current all-in cost projections in regard to the proposed new National Stadium. [12386/01]
Bernard J. Durkan
Question:589 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the seating and standing capacity of the various sports stadia currently proposed or in hand. [12388/01]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 83, 98, 559, 561, 587, and 589, together.
As I have already outlined in an earlier reply to Deputy O'Shea, the cost of the stadium outlined in the original PricewaterhouseCoopers feasibility study is £230 million. That study also gave an initial guideline cost of £51 million for a campus of sporting excellence. As I explained in the House on 31 January and again on 6 March last, Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited, which has responsibility for overseeing the planning and development of the project, on the basis of further work carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers and professional estimates of the cost of the commercial facilities planned, now estimate the cost of the campus, excluding the stadium, at £320 million, giving a total estimated cost of £550 million. Because CSID has decided to put the project to the market on a public private partnership type of approach, they estimate that the private sector will be prepared to invest £150 million in the project, mostly for the commercial facilities. When the private donation of £50 million is taken into account, the cost to the Exchequer of Sports Campus Ireland including Stadium Ireland is estimated at £350 million.