Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 February 2023
79. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7541/23]
View answer80. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) by Sport Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date 2023, in tabular form. [7542/23]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 80 together.
I have referred the Deputy's question to Sport Ireland for direct reply in relation to the funding it has allocated to the organisations mentioned. I would ask the Deputy to inform my office if a reply is not received within 10 days.
In relation to capital funding provided by my Department, the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total allocations in that time to over €1.15 billion. A list of all allocations under all recent rounds of the SCEP is published on my Department's website at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/471ed5-sports-capital-allocations/.
In addition, the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) was launched in 2018 to provide Exchequer support for larger sports facility projects where the amount sought is greater than the maximum grant available under the SCEP. The first allocations under the LSSIF were announced in January 2020 and, thus far, approximately €86.4 million has been awarded to 33 different proposals. The projects that received provisional allocations and the amounts provisionally awarded to them are published on the Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/service/4113b3-large-scale-sport-infrastructure-fund-lssif/.
