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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: Participation is a key principle that must underpin grassroots sport and is one of the key tenets of the National Sports Policy. Investment in, and supports to, both grassroots clubs and national level clubs in the League of Ireland is important and our capital funding programmes, as set out below, are providing significant support on both fronts. Government funding for football is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The latest round of the SCEP closed for applications on Friday 8 September 2023. A list of all applications received by county including the relevant sport type for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The application referred to by the Deputy was approved for funding under the 2020 round of the programme and my Department requested further information on 21 March 2024...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The latest round of the SCEP closed for applications on Friday 8 September 2023. A list of all applications received by county, including the application referred to by...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: The tables below provide a breakdown of expenditure in each of the Gaeltacht areas by my Department from its establishment in 2020 to date in 2024. In some instances, as block funding is provided to cover all Gaeltacht areas, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the allocation to each area. Subhead C3 Capital & Current Expenditure – An Clár Tacaíochta Pobail...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: The tables below detail the spending by Údarás na Gaeltachta in each Gaeltacht county for the years 2018 to the end of April 2024. These tables are categorised by major expenditure streams. It is not possible to categorise all expenditure by county especially expenditure that is not client or building specific such as general training programmes. In such instances the expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: My Department provides core Exchequer funding to Údarás na Gaeltachta under three separate headings; current expenditure (pay & pensions); current expenditure (programmes) and capital expenditure. The Department also provides a separate allocation towards the implementation of the language planning process in the Gaeltacht. This funding is supplemented by own source...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: Údarás na Gaeltachta's Strategic Plan 2021-2025, as agreed by the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta and submitted to my Department, sets out the organisation’s mission statement as follows: "To foster a sustainable Gaeltacht community where Irish is the main language, and where employment, society and culture make a world-class quality of life available." As a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: I can confirm that the funding allocated to the project in question under the 2018 round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme remains available to be drawn down. I would encourage the applicant to get in touch with my Department at sportsapitalprogrammes@tcagsm.gov.ie if assistance is required.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: Tá roinnt beartas ceadaithe faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge le dhá bhliain anuas chun tacaíocht bhreise a chur ar fáil do theaghlaigh a chuireann lóistín ar fáil do lucht freastal na gColáistí Gaeilge agus do theaghlaigh nua atá ag teacht isteach sa chóras. San áireamh anseo: Tháinig ardú 20% ar an...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: Both the National Sports Policy 2018-2027 and the Sports Action Plan 2021-2023 commit to the development of a National Swimming Strategy. A public consultation on its development closed in October 2022 and work on the analysis of the very large number of responses is now complete. Work on developing the National Swimming Strategy is nearing completion and I hope to be in a position to...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Sports Funding (1 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Senator McGahon for raising this issue. I recognise the importance of sport and physical activity for everybody. We need to ensure everybody has the opportunity to participate in sport. Encouraging greater participation in sport is an important element of the national sports policy and a key aim for the Government. People with a disability have an absolute right to enjoy and...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Sports Funding (1 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: We will certainly consider that. One of the challenges with dormant accounts funding is that the money in those accounts is running low. There are fewer and fewer such accounts, so the money allocated from them is decreasing. We try to top that up from the general pot of money every year and to ensure that people with disabilities are not disadvantaged, which is something I am very keen...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (1 May 2024)

Thomas Byrne: The National Velodrome and Badminton Centre is the first high-level project that will be delivered under the new masterplan for the further development of the Sport Ireland National Sports Campus, which was approved by Government in November 2022. The project will address the need to provide world-class track cycling facilities for our athletes who currently have to travel abroad for both...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 373 and 374 together. While neither my Department nor Sport Ireland provides direct funding for cardiac screening or defibrillators there are grant opportunities and other supports within sport that clubs can avail of. The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and physical...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: On Friday last Minister Martin and I announced funding of up to €120 million under the new round of the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) which is open for applications until 3pm on Monday 1 July 2024. I encourage all eligible projects to consider applying for this competitive application process. While this new round of the programme is again aimed primarily at the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The latest round of the SCEP closed for applications on Friday 8 September 2023. A list of all applications received by county including the relevant sport type for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The latest round of the SCEP closed for applications on Friday 8 September 2023. A list of all applications received by county including the relevant sport type for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: 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. The Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: On Friday last, 26 April 2024, Minister Martin and I announced funding of up to €120 million under the new round of the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) which is open for applications until 3pm on Monday 1 July 2024. I encourage all eligible projects to consider applying for this competitive application process. While this new round of the programme is again aimed...