Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

It is beyond me why it has taken so long for this strategy to be put in place. We got the review and report on tourism within a matter of months but the issue of a strategy and review of sports capital funding has gone on for years. The outcome of this is that sports capital grants are not available. We do not know why this is the case or when they will be opened up again. If we had the strategy in place and knew what was in it, we could make progress. We have all been concerned about the sports capital grant, but nothing has happened. We were able to get action on the entire banking system overnight. We sat here one night and the Government voted the proposal through.

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