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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: I would say, as I said earlier, that if a sports club or private school is financially self-sufficient, it should not qualify for the sports capital programme while there are applicants from areas of disadvantage which have not qualified.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: There were 30 public schools. I have outlined just a couple of them. I could have reeled off a whole lot more, but I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Some 50.7% went to disadvantaged areas-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: -----so 49.3% of those grants went to clubs and schools that are not in disadvantaged areas-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: -----contrary to what the whole scheme was about in the first instance. It is the blatant inequality that sticks in people's craws.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: Nobody expected this sort of elitism and blatant inequality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: We actually thought that there was going to be a fair assessment. It turns out that there was not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: He is not responding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The money had not been allocated. Two years passed before the Minister of State allocated it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: He kept promising it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I am raising them now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: It is blatant inequality and the Minister of State cannot see it. Everybody else outside can see it. He is so out of touch that he cannot see it.
- 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 could not even be straight in his opening statement. He said that he had given extra funding. He did not say that for two years there were no grants and that he had just doubled up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I read it out. He could not even be upfront about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: It would not be the first time the Vice Chairman has come out with something like that. Will he try to keep with the programme and follow the conversation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: The difference between the Deputy and me is that if there was a private school in my constituency-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: -----with the same facilities, I would be as vocal about it as I am about Wesley College. Mark my words, I would be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: It is the inequality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I have said nothing about the groups that have qualified. I have flagged the blatant inequality in the allocation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Imelda Munster: I know the Minister of State and the Minister probably did put work in to get the two years' funding together. However, that money does not belong to him or to the Minister.