Vol. 523 No. 1
974 Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the cost to date of all the projected costs of the National Stadium; the progress to date of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20431/00]
Earlier this year the Government appointed a development company, Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited, which has responsibility for taking the Sports Campus Ireland project through the design and construction stages.
Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited estimate the cost of the development of the total campus and stadium project to be in the region of £550 million. This covers the cost of an 80,000 seat stadium, where the cost remains at £281 million as outlined in the feasibility study 'A Stadium for the New Century', less a private contribution of £50 million; a series of general sports use facilities including an aquatic and leisure centre, an indoor arena, a multipurpose indoor and outdoor training halls and pitches, a sports science-sports medicine centre and headquarters for sports organisations including the community games and a visitor-information centre; some specific use facilities for individual sports to be decided on the advice of the Irish Sports Council; the cost of the infrastructure on the Abbotstown site; and the operating costs of CSID, where the cost of the executive services team, which came on board on 1 September to provide a range of services including concept development, business planning, communications and public relations, management and corporate governance, financial services and control and information technology, will be capped at 1.8% of the development cost.
