John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

I do not know the exact position with regard to the scores and to the best of my recollection I did not know then. I made representations in the same way every other Deputy makes them. Every day of the week I receive representations from Deputies on various projects.

None of the projects which is awarded provisional grant allocations under the sports capital programme can access any of the allocated funding unless it has demonstrated full compliance with the terms and conditions as communicated to it by the Department. These conditions include, compliance with public tendering processes, legal and tax clearance requirements and the submission of invoices in respect of completed work on the project. In other words, unless a project fulfils all of the criteria, it cannot qualify.

It is important that we have political accountability in the Dáil and that is what I am doing here. It is also important that Deputies are politically accountable to their constituents.

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