FAI seeks access to corporate tax windfall to modernise all League of Ireland grounds via IrishTimesSport
There is also a glaring need to invest €26 million in the national football centre building off the Snugborough road in Dublin 15, something the FAI has been unable to achieve by themselves due to a €63.5 million debt.Support from the current Government is being sought via the FAI’s outgoing chairman Roy Barrett and Robert Watt, the current secretary general of the Department of Health, who in 2020 was named as one of four independent directors on the association’s revamped board.
“In the longer term, the appropriate level of sustained investment needed to meet the needs of a growing population and to support increased levels of participation by people of all ages and at all levels is a matter for careful consideration. In this regard, my Department operates two grant Programmes, the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme and the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund.”
The total figure required to make Irish football comparable to rival nations amounts to €863 million, with €426.4 million earmarked for grassroots, €370 million for stadiums and academy centres, and a further €47 million to bring soccer facilities on the National Sports Campus on a par with the IRFU and the GAA.
“I should note that a number of FAI-supported projects received funding under the first set of Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund allocations, announced in 2020,” added Minister Byrne. “In relation to the possibility of re-opening the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund for new applications from the FAI and other National Governing Bodies of Sport, there is ongoing engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in this regard.
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