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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: 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?
- 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.