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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I do not disagree with the proposal but given the public consultation process is currently under way would this not be a parallel process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I and a number of members tabled a motion on CIÉ pensions at a previous committee meeting that we would support the call on the Minister to make funding available to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I thank the officials for the work they do on the vital sports capital grant, which is vital to support sporting clubs right across the country. The Minister says there was due process and that he did no interfere with regard to Wesley College benefitting from an allocation of €150,000. It seems there is always due process. It was due...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: If the Chairman lets me finish my question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: -----it is about sport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: It is about funding for sport and a college which boasts on its website that it has four rugby pitches, one flood-lit rugby grid, one soccer pitch, two full-size hockey astroturf pitches, two mini-hockey pitches, two full-size hockey grid pitches, 16 tennis courts and hockey pitches during summer seasons, two cricket pitches during summer seasons, two outdoor basketball courts, one gymnasium,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: It happens to be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I will not return to the issue of Stepaside Garda station.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: It is also the case that Wesley College - which was granted €150,000 - Loreto College and Three Rock Rovers were awarded some €450,000 in total. They are located within a five mile radius of each other, and the majority happen to be in the constituency of the Minister. Does the Minister accept that people are annoyed by this? Does he accept that the perception out there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I have another question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: The Minister and the Minister of State are here before us today. Neither has outlined the percentage of funding that is allocated for disadvantaged areas, or areas of high deprivation. Of the €56 million allocated, how much of it was ring-fenced? I recently listened to an interview that An tAire Stáit gave last week in which he alluded to the fact that not all of the money that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: If not all of the moneys were allocated, can the Minister of State advise where the balance of that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: Perhaps the Minister can outline in his reply the percentage of the moneys which were not allocated and where that funding was spent, or indeed whether that unspent funding was held back. Will there be an opportunity for people to avail of that funding? After this session a number of representatives from the various minority sporting bodies will address us. It would be advantageous if the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: What are the amounts that they have benefitted from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I refer to the actual amounts allocated for the 22 schools versus the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I am aware of it, and it is still happening. The Minister made on apology on "Today with Sean O'Rourke".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: The Minister must not have done so if he has them with him today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding for Minority Sports and Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (28 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: Did the Minister root them out of the bin?