Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

We are now in different times but one advantage of this is that we are achieving far better value for the money we are spending. We can almost realise the same value as we did some years ago, although the budgets have decreased somewhat in recent years.

We want to maintain as much activity as we can. I have gone about this in the correct way. There were choices to be made on some of the programmes the Deputies raised, which I cannot fund at present as much as I would like to do so. My sole objective is to ensure that there are as many people as possible participating in sport at all levels. I believe the inclusion programme about which the Deputies spoke will be in place in 2010.

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