Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Sports Policy 2018-2027: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
1:30 pm
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
So if a club does not have a facility but a group with a facility enters into a licence agreement with that club, it will score far higher than the club that just goes it alone and does not make the facility a shared one. This is already in the sports capital programme. Again, we are considering weighting that even more heavily in the 2018 programme to encourage that type of facility sharing. This targets the type of clubs that are without the facilities referred to by the Vice Chairman. Easing up on the criteria regarding schools involves using State assets that might be currently unavailable and making them available. This, on top of other State agencies and the local authorities, provides a pretty good menu from which to choose in terms of lands that may be available. If we were to get into the land purchase side, we are into-----
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