Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary)
9:30 am
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I concur with Deputy Coppinger. The amount of funding being spent on the Irish Open as opposed to on Paralympics Ireland, anti-doping measures and the Women in Sport programme can be perceived badly. That is why I was using the example of the percentage of this year's overall expenditure being spent by the Department on the latter programme. This is IAA funding. As the Minister acknowledged, it was a windfall. Will this windfall be available next year? In the event that it is not, will the Women in Sport programme or the high-performance programme suffer a reduction in funding?
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