The proposal to replace Naas swimming pool is one of a number of swimming pool projects within the local authority swimming pool programme under consideration in my Department. There are four stages in the programme: preliminary report; contract document; tender approval; and construction. The Naas project is at contract document stage. The question of this project moving on to the next stage in the programme is being considered in my Department in the context of funding available in the Department's multiannual capital envelope for the local authority swimming pool programme and the limit on borrowings by local authorities