John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The opportunity presented to us by the 2012 Olympics will not present so close to us again. Despite the economic climate, we may not get this opportunity to develop our facilities again for some time. There is, therefore, a special case for advancing funding to do this. The Minister said that the Chinese team did all its training abroad. Why not let Ireland be the country where some of these teams do their training? I admit we do not have the facilities to stage international events, but developing facilities would benefit us through being a first step towards achieving that. That is important.

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