Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Revised)

2:10 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to be too argumentative but if anybody advising the Minister goes back and checks the pattern of spend in respect of the previous Leader programme, which was far less bureaucratic, and any of these capital grants, such as the sports capital grant, they will tell her that it is not a question of if at this stage; it is definitely going to happen. Every piece of evidence-based analysis would indicate that to a person checking the spend on capital programmes. This is worse because the Minister does not have any control over it as a result of the fact that it goes out to communities, which do the choosing.

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