Maureen O'Sullivan
Question:545. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2019 if the budget for Sport Ireland increased by 10%. [40091/18]
View answerTuesday, 2 October 2018
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In 2018, Sport Ireland was allocated €51.626m in current funding and €6.7m in capital funding from my Department. Current funding provides for Sport Ireland’s expenditure on sports programmes as well as administration costs, including staff costs, and other general expenses incurred by Sport Ireland in discharging its statutory role. The capital allocation provides for the development of the National Sports Campus.
Accordingly, the cost of a 10% increase in the current budget would be €5.16m and in the capital budget would be €0.67m.
In addition to the above, an amount of €5m was allocated to Sport Ireland this year from the Dormant Accounts Fund. €4m of this relates to current expenditure and €1m relates to capital expenditure.