Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Under the national sports policy, which we launched in July last year, we committed to double funding for sport between 2018 and 2027 and to treble high-performance funding. We are on track to achieve that and it will benefit all sports. There have been substantial increases in funding for sport in the past two budgets and that is reaching all sports. We have 67 national governing bodies, if I recall correctly, and we are trying to benefit everybody. As I said, there are sports which are less popular and not in every community, and we are trying to give prominence to and encourage them. These sports do not have the funding opportunities that are available to the larger sports and we must be mindful of their needs.