Wesley College granted 150,000 in government grants to resurface their hockey pitch.

MilesMorales1

https://twitter.com/Shane_RossTD/status/972174105456861185?s=09

I'm sure a fee paying school needed that grant. What with their establishment of

4 Rugby pitches
1 floodlit Rugby grid
1 Soccer pitch
2 full size Hockey astro-turf pitches
2 mini Hockey pitches
2 full size Hockey grit pitches
16 Tennis courts during the Summer season
2 Cricket pitches
2 outdoor Basketball courts
1 gymnasium
1 sports hall

Poor mites.

Jimbob1977

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Shane_RossTD/status/972174105456861185?s=09

I'm sure a fee paying school needed that grant. What with their establishment of

4 Rugby pitches
1 floodlit Rugby grid
1 Soccer pitch
2 full size Hockey astro-turf pitches
2 mini Hockey pitches
2 full size Hockey grit pitches
16 Tennis courts during the Summer season
2 Cricket pitches
2 outdoor Basketball courts
1 gymnasium
1 sports hall

Poor mites.

If they're eligible, they're eligible.

Gatling

Ohhh feel the fauxrage ,

They got a grant along with any other number of clubs and schools that also applied ,
Just under 40 million in grants were handed out

Are Am Eye

I don't think the whole 150k will be spent on the new hockey pitch.
There was also talk of buying coal for the staff room fire as stocks of cash bundles are low.

Harry Palmr

Where do you think the next generation of rugger buggers are going to come from if the state does not invest in private school sport facilities ?

MilesMorales1

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Where do you think the next generation of rugger buggers are going to come from if the state does not invest in private school sport facilities ?

Yes I suppose we need them for handbag at dawn slap fights like the one we got the video of a little while ago.

Richard Hillman

The pitches can be rented out for the likes of Football, Tag Rugby and yes, even Hockey. A big income puller for schools. My old school has an astro pitch that gets upgraded every few years. It's a business, everyone needing to upgrade facilities to stay competitive against the other pitches.

I think my old schools pitch is about €70 an hour and used probably 4 hours a night. Probably pulls in about 1k a week, likely tax free. Only expenses are electricity and one staff member to take the payment's.

Schwanz

I'm sure 150,000 would have fed a clothed a lot of homeless.

Yet more corporate welfare; great to see our taxes being handed to private businesses to enhance their value rather than invested in publicly owned schools.

What a really bad joke is the fact that only c. 15% of all Irish schools are owned by the Irish state but our taxes are used to perpetuate the existing private businesses which own our schools (most of the 85% of schools that are privately owned are not fee-charging, even though people wrongly equate fee-charging schools with private schools).

Mantis Toboggan

Shane Ross is some pleb.

Your Face

Good for them.

super_furry

Good man Shane Ross, the South County Dublin Healy-Rae.

Gatling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yet more corporate welfare; great to see our taxes

Key words Our Taxes


, Their taxes , everyones taxes

They likely pay more into tax pot than most others ,

suicide_circus

Some tax money going back to the middle classes from whence the lions share of tax comes from. Oh the humanity!

elefant

I'm usually far from the madding crowd of Facebook bleaters reducing everything to 'what about the homeless?', but this does seem a very unnecessary allocation of quite a decent sum to benefit the private interests of a school that already has some of the best facilities in the country.

Of course each school is as entitled as the next to apply for a grant, and I've no qualms with private schools getting some state support, but you'd have to question how this case could be seen as a priority for funding of facilities.

Have they an influential politician in their constituency?

Del2005

elefant wrote: »

I'm usually far from the madding crowd of Facebook bleaters reducing everything to 'what about the homeless?', but this does seem a very unnecessary allocation of quite a decent sum to benefit the private interests of a school that already has some of the best facilities in the country.

The government has different allocations for different activities. This isn't coming out of the housing budget or the health budget.

People complaining about this should be more outraged by the waste in the health and housing departments, which are both massive compared to the €40m given to numerous schools across the country.

Squatter

Schwanz wrote: »

I'm sure 150,000 would have fed a clothed a lot of homeless.

Are there many naked homeless people living in your area?

Photographic evidence required, please.

elefant

Del2005 wrote: »

The government has different allocations for different activities. This isn't coming out of the housing budget or the health budget.

People complaining about this should be more outraged by the waste in the health and housing departments, which are both massive compared to the €40m given to numerous schools across the country.

I didn't say anything about the housing or health budget.

Greybottle

Loreto Beaufort got €150,000 for a new surface for it's hockey pitch. https://twitter.com/Shane_RossTD/status/972180201257013248
Three Rock Rovers got €150,000 for a new surface for it's hockey pitch. https://twitter.com/Shane_RossTD/status/972176193851133952
Wesley got €150,000 for a new surface for it's hockey pitch. https://twitter.com/Shane_RossTD/status/972174105456861185

Less than 2.4 miles to walk past the three of them.
All in the constituency of the Minister for Sport.

I expect an Olympic medal in Paris 2024.

The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

Ulysses Gaze

OP

How much money did the Grab All Association get from the Government to upgrade Pairc Ui Chaoimh? €30 million.

€150,000 is chump change.

wakka12

Improved sports facilities for children.. Theres worse things we could be spending money on


Im just surprised it costs that much to resurface a hockey pitch. That seems insanely expensive.

Ulysses Gaze

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

OP

How much money did the Grab All Association get from the Government to upgrade Pairc Ui Chaoimh?

Oh, edgy and so original.

The Backwards Man

Damn proddy sports taking our GAA money! Whenever I see a wain with a hockey bat or a shuttlecock I can visibly see a part of Ireland dying before my eyes. They should all be banished.

Your Face

Let's be honest, this isnt about the money.

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Key words Our Taxes


, Their taxes , everyones taxes

They likely pay more into tax pot than most others ,

This is the equivalent of demanding that the government should subsidise Mercedes drivers along with a public bus service "because it's likely* the Merc driver pays more taxes". State money should only be spent on a state-owned school system.

* It's likely the Merc driver is, unlike people on lower incomes, also availing of a slew of tax avoidance schemes to reduce the percentage of his income that goes on tax.

Trigger Happy

Greybottle wrote: »

Less than 2.4 miles to walk past the three of them.

One is a boys school, one is a girls school and one is a private hockey club. And all are well used, not sitting idle.
Should they share toilets too?

Ajsoprano

Trigger Happy wrote: »

One is a boys school, one is a girls school and one is a private hockey club. And all are well used, not sitting idle.
Should they share toilets too?

I’m only half reading this thread deciding whether I should be angry or not.

Are you suggesting boys and girls sharing hockey facilities is akin to sharing a toilet?

Berserker

More power to Shane Ross for providing this funding. Those pitches will be valued and used by the current crop of students and many more in years to come. Played hockey on their pitches on many occasions myself. The general public will get use of them also.

Gatling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This is the equivalent of demanding that the government should subsidise Mercedes drivers along with a public bus service "because it's likely* the Merc driver pays more taxes". State money should only be spent on a state-owned school system.

* It's likely the Merc driver is, unlike people on lower incomes, also availing of a slew of tax avoidance schemes to reduce the percentage of his income that goes on tax.

Not it's more simple they were simply entitled like all the following in Dublin.
The below are just for Dublin ,
GAA , local football ,pitches ,
Lawn mowers at 20+000 plus to name but a few

Trigger Happy

Ajsoprano wrote: »

I’m only half reading this thread deciding whether I should be angry or not.

Are you suggesting boys and girls sharing hockey facilities is akin to sharing a toilet?

No, I am suggesting that just because three utilities are close to each other and are well used is not a reason to deny one or any of them funding.

Ajsoprano

The national yacht club got 150 000 to increase women and children participation?