Sports Funding: Statements
Seanad Éireann — 2023-11-21
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Thomas Byrne (FF), Meath East

That is what I am saying. I hope we will be in the position to do that in the coming weeks. We may not be ready to open applications in the coming weeks, but I at least hope to be able to signal that. There is ongoing engagement with the Department of public expenditure on that at the moment. We have to do that. We had to do it for sports capital and we now have to do it for the large-scale sports infrastructure fund. I hope to be able to give that signal around the time we announce the top-up grants, which were only open to those who already had a grant designed to get these projects moving and account for some of the inflationary pressures.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-21