Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Sports Capital Programme: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. David Barber:

From the tennis perspective, in order for our performance players to make progress on the world scene, they must travel outside of Ireland regularly to play in tournaments in Europe and further afield. For safeguarding, we now send two adults with players. The additional adult is there to comply with the safeguarding aspect, with which we completely agree. However, in flight and accommodation terms alone, this has added €40,000 to our annual costs. That is just by way of putting a number on it. That does not include the people who we would have managing it at the centre and managing our clubs in order to ensure they are compliant. That is the additional cost that it puts on us.

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