Never read the same pile of dung in my life. Pure unadulterated dung. Allowances?? There already is allowances in place. <snip>
where are there allowances, remembering than an allowance is a fixed amount ?
There's very very generous expenses, which go way beyond the actual cost of travel, and you could call that an allowance, but the amount you claim is dependent on how far you travel which means a player living beside the county grounds gets next to zilch and the lads travelling from Dublin for few 100km round trip are minting it.
You'd presume lads living beside the grounds would use a little imagination or claim from his place of work, but still, its a sliding scale and essentially a way of compensating players for their efforts only that the more you travel the more you are compensated.
Reading between the lines, I think the new allowance would replace this generous expenses system, possibly also replacing or being merged into the high performance grant from the government for inter county players, which was a sham from the beginning.
The players also get (IIRC) a clatter of money for boots and nutrition, so the new allowance would likely replace that too.
But as for use of grounds by other organisations (“establish criteria for the use of Association facilities by other sports organisations.”) including "the peoples game" , I don't know what that's all about. I'd hope its just a rewording of the exception for use of grounds for the rugby world cup into a generic provision for one off events, but I'm not sure.
I cant imagine that the GAA is looking to expand the reach of "the peoples game" into every corner of Ireland by laying out a red carpet to use grounds where they have none currently.
There's a number of other ideas like reducing the size of the central council and abolishing provincial councils and replacing them with regional councils which I'd be very much in favour of .
