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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: In the Minister of State, Deputy Griffin's statement he noted:Originally it was envisaged that €30 million would be provided for the sports capital programme in 2017. However, following discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Minister and I were delighted to increase the budget. That allowed us to allocate a total of €60 million at the end of 2017...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I am sorry. I am speaking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The Minister has said that is all that club applied for and that it got what it applied for. How could the club apply for anything else when it has no facilities? This is where the sports capital grant falls down. An audit has not been carried out and that is one of my suggestions for the total overhaul of this sports programme. It has never been carried out. We have waited two years to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: When the Minister talks about the community, he is not referring to the wider community. The YMCA and perhaps one or two schools will benefit. This does not benefit the overall wider community to a degree that justifies giving a grant of that size to a school that already had an abundance of facilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Heaven forbid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Is that not the point I have made about where the sports grants programme falls down? The Minister says that this gives access to people who would never otherwise have it. Heaven forbid that they would be given their own sporting facilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The Minister has quite a nerve to describe it as a disadvantaged area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Before the Minister goes on and in case it is overlooked, he said the YMCA badly needed the use of the facility. It comes back again to carrying out an audit to see where the money could best be spent. If it badly needed the use of a facility, the YMCA, through the Minister's Department, should have been informed of the sports capital grant scheme. It should have been given assistance to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Before the Minister goes on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: At no stage did I say that golf is a rich man's sport. My two nephews are very keen golfers. My point is that the particular club which I mentioned charges an annual fee of €8,000. Most taxpayers could not afford such a charge and yet they are expected to foot the bill for that club. Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill when a club such as that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The Minister of State is deliberately ignoring the point I made. The question I asked was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: ----how does a golf club-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The Minister of State is deliberately ignoring the point I made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I have already said that golf is not a rich man's sport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Will the Minister of State answer the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: No, the Minister of State is not answering the question. If he was answering it, I would say "Fair enough".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Will the Minister of State please get to the point? How does a club charging an annual fee of €8,000 qualify?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Every child should have such opportunities. I am asking how a golf club qualified for €150,000 of taxpayers' money-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: -----when it charges €8,000 as an annual fee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Where is the justification for that?