Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I went to great lengths to emphasise we were absolutely not threatening local clubs.

We are not threatening the grassroots. On the contrary, my focus, certainly in my time in the Department, has been on trying to roll out as much funding as possible to the grassroots, so much so that the last sports capital programme was the first under which every valid applicant received funding. We want to try to achieve this as much as possible in the future, but the Deputy is misrepresenting what is being said, which is very irresponsible of her.

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