Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 July 2019
2443. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding committed to date in respect of centres of excellence (details supplied); the capital projects that involve the organisation in tabular form; if budgets, investments and-or funds for capital projects involving the organisation are suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33592/19]
Amharc ar fhreagraMinister Ross and I previously stated that no further payments will be made by my Department to the FAI under sport capital schemes until we are satisfied with corporate governance structures at the Association. Applications for new projects under the Sports Capital Programme or the new Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) will be assessed in the normal way but if an allocation is made, no payments will be made until all matters that gave rise to concern including corporate governance and financial management at the Association have been addressed satisfactorily. My Department wrote to the Association on the 17th April in this regard and this continues to be the position.
The table below sets out in tabular form the status of the existing live allocations that have been made to the Association and the up to date position in regard to same.
|
Organisation |
Project Summary |
Amount Allocated |
Application Status |
Balance Outstanding |
SCP Year |
|
AUL- FAI Ltd |
AUL Complex Floodlighting and Electrical work |
€35,000 |
Formally Approved Fully Outstanding |
€35,000 |
2004 |
|
FAI |
Phoenix Park Dressing Rooms Sports Equipment |
€24,000 |
Grant Provisionally Allocated |
€24,000 |
2012 |
|
AUL-FAI Ltd |
Changing Rooms Improvements |
€53,000 |
Formally Approved Partially Outstanding |
€10,722 |
2014 |
|
FAI |
Floodlighting at United Park Drogheda |
€60,000 |
Formally Approved Partially Outstanding |
€12,322 |
2015 |
|
FAI |
Sports Equipment for grassroots programmes |
€74,000 |
Grant Provisionally Allocated |
€74,000 |
2017 |
|
FAI |
Ferrycarrig Park Wexford, |
€56,000 |
Grant Provisionally Allocated |
€56,000 |
2017 |
Details of all finalised allocations to the Association are available on the Department's website.
In regard to the specific projects mentioned by the Deputy the position is that the Munster Centre of Excellence and the Aviva Stadium Lansdowne Road, are the subject of applications under the LSSIF. 72 applications were received in total under the LSSIF and my officials are currently undertaking an initial assessment of them. In view of the detailed information contained in each application, I am advised that it will take a number of months to have all of them assessed. Accordingly, I expect that it will be towards the end of this year before allocations are announced.
Under a partnership strategy for the development of field sport facilities at the Sport Ireland National Sports Campus, Abbotstown, capital funding of €500,000 was committed for the development of football training facilities. €475,000 of this funding was drawn down from Sport Ireland in 2014 and 2015.
I am not aware of any specific application for capital funding for a centre of excellence at Galway United.
