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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I have been Minister of State in the Department for nine months. I do not remember the Deputy ever raising this issue until today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We have this outrage today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I was the Chairman of this committee for a year. I do not remember this outrage from the Deputy about the terms and conditions of the sports capital programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I do not remember the Deputy ever coming in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: ----and using the numerous opportunities she had----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: -----day in and day out, whether through Topical Issues, oral parliamentary questions or any of the other avenues which we use to raise these matters, and yet she is outraged today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: That is great. What was happening for the past two years? Was this outrage bubbling up inside of the Deputy and is only coming out today?
- 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 the 1,700 successful applicants were from 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 never-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I do not recall the Deputy shouting from the rooftops about there not being a programme in 2016. I was Chairman of the committee for the majority of that year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: As the Deputy is well aware, there was an economic calamity in this country. It was not possible for the sports capital programme to happen every year. It was abandoned in 2008. The Fine Gael-led Government that included the Labour Party reintroduced it for 2012. We had programmes again in 2014 and 2015. There was no programme in 2016. We had a programme in 2017. It was hugely...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: I asked the Deputy a question and she will not answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: In County Louth about half the successful recipients of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: ----sports capital funding under the 2017 programme would not have received it but for the work the Minister and I did to raise the finance. From which half would the Deputy choose to take the funding back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: Every valid applicant received funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: We never claimed it does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: All the citizens of the country-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: -----contributed to this. That is why we were determined-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: -----that it would be fairly distributed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Brendan Griffin: If I may address that point, when one comes in here and someone questions one's integrity, which is what Deputy Munster is doing, it is important to set the record straight. Every application was adjudicated on by the very dedicated officials working in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. They were deemed to be either valid or invalid. The breakdown was roughly 80% to 20%,...