Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter which I have raised previously in the House but will raise again now in the presence of the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue: the need for the Minister to address the skewed priorities of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism which allocates an embarrassing 37% of its funding to the hugely profitable dog and horse racing industries, and the need to spend such moneys on people, for example by spending additional funding on swimming pools in neglected communities and on other much-needed sports facilities rather than gambling with the futures of our children.

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