Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government states the Government will support sporting organisations in their efforts to increase sporting participation. In its recently announced and welcome strategy on obesity for 2016 to 2025, the Government pledged to develop a new national sporting framework structure and policy. That was reiterated in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport document. How does that rhetoric and policy documentation match with the Government decision to cut funding for the sports capital grants by 17% next year? Given the supposed recovery, will the Taoiseach explain the logic of that cut to this House?

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