Results 8,161-8,180 of 15,510 for speaker:Brendan Griffin
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: In recent rounds of the Sports Capital Programme (SCP), an issue was identified for certain schools located on lands owned by the Minister of Education and Skills being able to fulfil the standard title requirements of the programme. My officials have been engaging with the Department of Education and Skills with a view to resolving the issue and a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: As members will be aware, the sports capital programme, SCP, is the Government's primary vehicle to support the development of sports facilities and the purchase of sports equipment. More than 10,000 projects have now benefitted from SCP funding since 1998. The programme has transformed the sporting landscape of Ireland with improvements in the quality and quantity of sporting facilities in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Allocations were made on a per capitabasis for Dublin in general. Dublin's allocation was higher than the overall value of the value of the applications in respect of Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister and the Chairman. I will begin again with Senator O'Mahony.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: My mother was a psychiatric nurse. We would not have been considered a wealthy family. She worked very hard all her life. She took up golf in her 50s. That decision 20 years ago gave that woman a new lease of life. Are we now being told that people like her and so many others should not receive help? In the rural parish in Kerry from which I come, most of the lads who play golf are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: May I continue without interruption?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The Deputy had her opportunity. I heard her question. I am answering it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The Deputy has asked her question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I am trying to answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: The Deputy does not like the answers, that is why----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Will the Deputy allow me to continue? She keeps interrupting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: There are golf clubs which have large membership fees but they have junior programmes and various other programmes that do not involve that membership fee. For example, there are junior programmes for children who otherwise would not get to play golf at all. Is the Deputy saying that those children should not have the opportunity to play golf?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Where would the Deputy draw the line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Where would the Deputy draw the line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Where would she draw it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: What is self-sufficient?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Should a club that is surviving-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: -----not be able to improve its facilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Some 1,000 out of 1,700 grants went to disadvantaged areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I was Chairman of this committee for a year. When the terms and conditions of this scheme were published, I do not remember the Deputy showing this outrage. I was here for over a year. I do not remember that outrage when these terms and conditions were published.