Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Earlier this year it was stated sports capital grants would be annualised. Will they be released this year or not until next year? If no date has been set for their payment this year, will the money be carried forward to next year? Has the money detailed in the subheads been spent on capital projects, given that the sports grants have not yet been released?

I stated the non-statutory inquiry into the Olympic Council of Ireland would be toothless, primarily because it did not have the power to compel witnesses to attend. We have seen the dismissive, if not arrogant, approach taken to the Minister when he travelled to Rio de Janeiro. If this attitude is anything to go by, a non-statutory inquiry will not extract the answers and information we need. The Minister should have considered establishing a full statutory inquiry. If we do not get to the bottom of the matter in a non-statutory inquiry and do not put measures in place to ensure it will never happen again, will the Minister commit to considering the establishment of a statutory inquiry?

On tourism, we speak about the Wild Atlantic Way and Dublin city as being the most popular tourist sites. The midlands and areas along the east coast do not receive the same attention to detail in terms of promotion. Has the Minister met Tourism Ireland to discuss the possible consequences of a Brexit and how they might be pre-empted in promoting tourism on a cross-Border basis?