Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is about funding for sport and a college which boasts on its website that it has four rugby pitches, one flood-lit rugby grid, one soccer pitch, two full-size hockey astroturf pitches, two mini-hockey pitches, two full-size hockey grid pitches, 16 tennis courts and hockey pitches during summer seasons, two cricket pitches during summer seasons, two outdoor basketball courts, one gymnasium, one sports hall, an athletics track and field facilities on its rugby pitches during the summer season.

It begs the question how an application from this institution was granted, while an application from St. Dominic's College, Ballyfermot, a DEIS band one school which applied for €180,000 to refurbish its only PE hall with windows, a floor and a roof to stop it leaking, was rejected. Ballynacargy boxing club, in my own home village, produced an all-Ireland champion. It applied for changing room facilities but the application was not approved. If the process was followed and adhered to by the Minister, then perhaps the process itself needs to change. It is coincidental that the process always seems to benefit the only two Garda stations that were named, one of which was in the constituency of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross.