Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

On grants for sporting organisations, I know if we take a snapshot of one year it does not necessarily give a true picture because there can be spikes. However, there is a trend, if we look at it on a per capitabasis, where areas that would possibly not be in a position to come up with matching funds feature poorly. For instance, Westmeath was top of that and that could have been for local reasons in a given year but there are places at the bottom of it which are getting a very poor amount of funding relative to their population. Does the Department look at that scheme in terms of varying the scheme depending the wealth of an area and its ability to come up with matching funding, for example?