Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure

1:30 pm

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I can get that. I do not have the details of the schools here but the amounts for disadvantaged areas is 50%. The question of more open access and opening up the schools was raised as well. In many cases where the schools have applied, as has been said and acknowledged, they do have the assets. In every single case, private and public, where a school makes an application, that school must involve a local club as well. The idea is quite specifically that local clubs, which do not have access to such facilities, can share them with the schools.

We have seen high-profile cases, to which I will come in a minute, where clubs get use of the school facilities for 31.5 hours per week, up from zero. That gives them an open access which they did not have before. That applies to both private and public schools.

On the issue of bridge, I note that we will be looking at the eligibility criteria for sports in our review. We would be very happy to examine bridge. I do not think it comes within the definitions that we work under-----

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