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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: Let me go on. In this case, the recommendations were made by officials. They came before the Minister of State, Deputy Griffin, and me for signature. We did not change one comma, one allocation, one place, one position or anything whatsoever, at any stage. This is unique. The appeals also reached the Ministers and exactly the same thing happened. It was determined that we would not come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I will read some of them. One states the club would benefit greatly from any funding made available to it and that the Deputy would appreciate it if I was to consider its application positively. What would happen if I was to consider it positively? What was the Deputy asking me to do? Was he asking me to sit back and consider it positively, or waste my time? I have eight letters from him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I was not going to interfere in the way the Deputy asked me to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: The Deputy asked me continuously to meet sports clubs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: The Deputy can come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: Nobody asked me to interfere with the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: Look at these. There are eight letters from the Deputy asking me to look favourably on clubs in his area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: Then he comes to me to say one in his area got through on appeal. Let me tell him other things about my area. Every appeal in my area failed, including those made by Our Lady's Grove and St. Columba's College. Let me tell the Deputy the story about it since he is making these accusations. My father was a governor of St. Columba's College which both of my children attended. One cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: No, the Deputy asked me to look favourably on them. What am I going to do if I look favourably on them? This is the height of hypocrisy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: That is the last resort, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I will now talk to the Deputy about the timetable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I have already answered the question about the timetable. The issue of the allocations will be addressed in the next couple of months. It will be done as speedily as possible. If I am in office when the next allocations are made, unlike Fianna Fáil, I will ensure there is no political interference whatsoever. I think I have probably answered Deputy Imelda Munster's questions. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I received representations from the Deputy's party leader on its behalf. I do not know what I was expected to do. The Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, as I think I said to Deputy John O'Mahony, was the joint applicant. It badly needed the use of the hockey pitch. I am delighted that it got it. I am also delighted that Taney national school got it, that Whitechurch school got it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I do not know if the YMCA and everybody else who could have applied or did apply attended the numerous workshops, of which the Deputy is probably aware. Perhaps she is not. They were held throughout the country to inform people of the grants available. To say they were not informed is a little unfair on the officials and others who promoted the scheme. The grants were widely advertised...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: Can I, please, finish without interruption? The Deputy can come back in as often as she likes. There are many golf clubs with a small membership. Golf is played by huge numbers of children around the country in circumstances which are not ones of grandeur or richness or anything of that sort. They just enjoy the game. Those children should be helped and encouraged. Golf should not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: May I ask the Minister of State, Deputy Griffin, to deal with the other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I think the Vice Chairman wrote 16 representations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I was grateful for them but I am afraid they did not have any influence on the decision.

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I thank the Deputies who contributed to the debate on this Bill and for their support for it in general. I would like to address just one or two items, the ones that were relevant. As I stated at the outset, this Bill does not make for light reading. I believe, however, that the principles in it are clear. Through votes of the Oireachtas, Ireland is already committed to implementing...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Shane Ross: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).