Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am very proud of the last round of the sports capital programme. It was the only time the media, the Deputy’s party and everybody else could find no fault with it because we allocated it on a per capitabasis. Every county received what it was entitled to get. I picked the lowest counties and gave them an increase and I will do the same again because members of previous Governments allocated money to their own counties. I did not do this. My county, Mayo, received what it was entitled to get pro rata. I can stand over every decision I made in the last round of the programme.

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