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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: While there was no grant allocation of that amount to the organisation referred to by the Deputy in 2014, six allocations of €200,000 each were made to individual clubs in 2014 following a submission from the organisation.  The letter seeking this funding will be provided to the Deputy under separate cover.  I understand that prior to approving the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: My Department has no plans to build a sports facility in County Cavan. While my Department does not provide sports facilities directly, grant assistance is available to sports clubs, national governing bodies of sport, schools and local authorities for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment. Full...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: CLÁR Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: 513. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the options available for a group that cannot apply for CLÁR funding in view of the fact that 80% of its area is not in a CLÁR area (details supplied). [17219/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Funding (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: 514. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17234/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: 545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) relating to jobseekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17557/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I am a long-standing supporter of Irish soccer and of the teams that have represented our country on the world stage. The current situation is extraordinary. There has been friction for a long time in the Football Association of Ireland and many have been critical of the association's leadership. The League of Ireland has had particular challenges and there have been calls for more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: There is friction in many national governing bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: It very important to point out and reiterate that our primary purpose is to ensure that people who want to play soccer and who want to be active in sport can do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: What the Deputy is advocating would hurt those who need our support most.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: Our position is that we want to ensure-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I allowed the Deputy to ask the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: As the Deputy knows, these revelations came to light recently. The process, which started recently, is of concern to us all. As a result of that, it is important that we use whatever leverage we have to ensure a speedy resolution to the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: One of the areas in which we have leverage is the sports capital programme. It is critically important, however, that we ensure that the people who are affected by our actions are the people whom we need to affect, rather than those who would ultimately become victims - the people on the ground, the grassroots members who want to play and participate in sports and the volunteers who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I know that some people want to be judge, jury and executioner but there is a process in place and we need to allow it to continue in order to gather all the facts and establish an answer to that question. We are concerned. That is why we are all here. We want to get the answers to the questions that need to be answered. I am not happy that many of the questions which all of us have, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: There is an awful lot of information in the public domain. I hope that we will also get the information we do not yet have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: As of the end of March, 24 Sport Ireland-supported bodies have fully adopted the code. Some 20 of those are national governing bodies, three are local sports partnerships and there is one other. Another 56 Sport Ireland-supported bodies, comprising 42 national governing bodies, six local sports partnerships and eight others are on their way to adopting the code. The FAI is one of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The understanding is, and Sport Ireland could inform the Deputy further, that there is a governance committee, which is tasked with overseeing that and adopting the code.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I emphasised very specifically that it is not our intention to punish individual soccer clubs. On the contrary, our intention is to ensure that soccer clubs get the support they need to develop their facilities and to develop in every other way as well. I specifically emphasised that we do not want to punish individual local soccer clubs. At present the sports capital programme for 2018 is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: Tomorrow is the closing date for applications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The assessment phase for the large-scale sporting infrastructure fund will take at least six months. After that we hope the allocations will be made. The average time for drawdown under the regular sports capital programme is two years. We could be talking about quite a lengthy period of time before actual payments are made.