Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey insists the sub-regional stadia funding is "ready to go" as she denied the plans had been shelved.
The significant tranche of funding was committed by the Northern Ireland Executive back in 2015 but there has never been any movement on its release.
Speaking on Monday, Sinn Fein representative Hargey said the programme could not be brought forward before the end of the current mandate due to the Executive collapsing.
On Tuesday Ms Hargey said she was "ready to bring proposals forward" but reiterated that the funding would require sign-off from the Executive, which fell earlier in February when Paul Givan resigned as First Minister.
"I am ready to bring proposals forward before the end of this mandate," Ms Hargey told the BBC.
"The budget is there and I do think that it's incumbent on those other parties, particularly the DUP who walked away, to look at that because this is the impact of their decision."
Ms Hargey has come under fire from football fans, while the Irish FA's chief executive Patrick Nelson said the association had "expressed concern" on the lack of engagement from the Communities Minister on the funding programme.
"When I looked at the original programme that was dated nearly 10 years previous to that I felt we needed to do a refresh and re-engagement exercise in terms of looking at that programme because the consultation that was done back in 2016 was already four years out of date," said Ms Hargey on Tuesday.
"We have worked at speed and don't forget that we had a pandemic in the midst of that, where my focus was also making sure that those clubs could stay alive throughout the pandemic.
"There were calls from many soccer clubs and indeed other sports that they were going to go to the wall, and I made sure that I stood up urgent funding that those clubs needed and indeed stabilised them over that period.
"I had always said that my commitment was to bring this programme forward before the end of this mandate, that's what I was completely committed to and I was moving at pace to do that.
"I'm still here as a minister, I'm willing to work out around that executive table. I want to see this money released."
