Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:15 pm

Mr. Michael O'Mahony:

If I may respond, in terms of the €500,000 even, I believe IRD Duhallow is prohibited from funding the community centre in Rathmore simply because it might return a surplus at the end of the year. We need surpluses. They are not bad things because they allow us to reinvest and put in the managerial expertise about which we are talking. In terms of the de minimisrules, it is patently absurd that we are in some way distorting intra-European trade. I respect that Deputy Ó Cuív has done his best to change it, but that is where the flaw is.