Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While he calls for transparency on the way funding is dealt with, the fact that it comes before the Dáil and Seanad for a week every year puts Deputy Carthy in an awful bind because he does not know whether he is coming or going. The Deputy is trying to ride two horses at the one time, or as Deputy Cairns has said, to run with the hare and hunt with the hound. That is a difficult thing to do and it exposes the Deputy as not having a position on it. If the horse racing and greyhound sectors, for whom this funding is massively important, are depending on Sinn Féin to continue to fund the sector then they would be very concerned-----

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