Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My mother was a psychiatric nurse. We would not have been considered a wealthy family. She worked very hard all her life. She took up golf in her 50s. That decision 20 years ago gave that woman a new lease of life. Are we now being told that people like her and so many others should not receive help? In the rural parish in Kerry from which I come, most of the lads who play golf are building labourers - carpenters and blocklayers. They are not the white-collar professionals that people sometimes stereotype golfers as being. Golf has a huge role in our communities and in society in terms of sport.