Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I was not querying the position regarding Paralympics Ireland but I drew a contrast between the amount of money allocated to Irish Open golf and the fact that the entire Women in Sport programme gets one fifth of that. I know it brings in tourists and I am not averse to golf because people like it, but there is massive prize money for this competition. Are we going to subsidise something which is very well funded as it is? There are many events that bring people into the country, such as the marathon.