Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I want to see shared facilities. With resources so scarce, we will be looking to have shared facilities and participation where people will actually be taking part.

Deputy Deering asked a question about the swimming pool scheme last year. We are looking at other ways and means of dealing with it. Deputy Lawlor's question on applications has been put to me before, and it is something the Minister and I will examine. Given the number of applications, we can only deal with a small percentage of them. Perhaps we could look at the Deputy's suggestion, but we are not making a decision on it now. We are currently adjudicating on those applications that are being made, we are putting them in order and we will see how we can facilitate and allocate that money as fairly as possible.

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