Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

How can the Minister of State say the Government does not have the money? It provides €40 million for sport, but it provides €5.5 billion in order to deal with the abuse which participation in sport would challenge. I thought the Government was planning to exercise joined-up thinking. Where is that thinking if €5.5 billion can be spent on dealing with the abuse of alcohol and tobacco? It only needs to reduce that amount by 20% to save more than €1 billion. A sum of €40 million is peanuts by comparison.

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