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. Seán Fleming:
Ours is a 32-county organisation. I live in Belfast. We have a very good relationship with the Northern Ireland Judo Federation, NIJF. As I mentioned in my submission, the NIJF received money from Sport Northern Ireland, but because it is government money, it must be given to people resident in the North. Many of our Irish Judo Association players are resident in the North and they are quite entitled to that funding. We cannot match what the players in the North get in the Twenty-six Counties. It is totally impossible.
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