Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I did not ask the Minister of State the drawdown criteria or procedure. I asked him the criteria based on which public moneys were awarded to these six projects. We know how the sports capital programme works and how clubs register and apply.

In this instance, an outside agency, namely the Football Association of Ireland, FAI, was grant aided, and it appears from the reply that the FAI then decided who got what. What I am trying to find out is why the FAI picked the projects concerned, because these are public moneys. There does not seem to be any degree of transparency as to why the FAI selected these six projects over the many other projects. That is what we are asking. Why was it these six projects? Will the Minister of State give an undertaking to publish the criteria and assessment of these six projects, and, indeed, of all the other projects considered by the FAI, among which these six projects came top of the list in the priority order?

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