I apologise. I was not anticipating the swap. I thought I was No. 4. I thank the Deputy for bearing with me. I know the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, has already given an initial reply. As the Deputy knows, the sports capital and equipment programme is the main vehicle for the development of sports and recreation facilities. More than €1.15 billion has been spent on that since the programme opened. As the Deputy said, there were a record number of applications the last time. More than 3,000 applications were made and more than €16.6 million was spent on equipment and €143.8 million on capital grants. Appeals were made, as well, which brought the allocation up to a total of €166.6 million for 2020. That is the highest allocation ever.
As the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, said, we are in discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. We are basically finished the review. We will be publishing it shortly. The objective of the review is to make sure the money is spent in the best possible way, but we see with sports capital that money is spent very well by communities, in communities, and is of great benefit to everybody else. The important thing for us is to make sure we increase participation, equality and inclusion and help our elite athletes achieve what they are able to achieve.