Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I can understand the ineligibility criteria and am aware of clubs that were rightly deemed ineligible and informed to that effect. I am not talking about ineligible clubs but about clubs that appeared to have met all the stated criteria, both on cursory and more detailed investigation. I am aware, however, of at least two cases in which a Fine Gael councillor told one club money would be delivered and another, while trying to sooth its pain, that it would not. This is less than transparent and less than helpful, particularly at a time when the Government is trying to carry out a loaves-and-fishes exercise with a much smaller budget. I do not question the Government's bona fides but ask the Minister to examine this to try to understand it and publish a list of the meetings that have taken place between him and his backbench colleagues. Such a list would be helpful. I ask the Minister to publish the diary.

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