Peter Chap Cleere

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The Claire Byrne Show · Exercise in Ireland has become expensive · 21 May 2026 podcast

Good morning to your listeners.

Can we not run the roads now if we can't afford the gym membership?

Yeah, well, that option is still available to everybody.

But look, obviously, one of the specific measures in the programme for government, Clare, is to try and increase participation in sport, particularly amongst females.

And I suppose what I've been calling for for the last number of months is for a 20% tax relief or a tax credit

on memberships of any sort of a sports membership, whether it be a gym, whether it be your local G8 club, whether it be your local swimming pool, whatever the case may be.

I think it will be really, really putting money back into the pockets of the squeeze middle.

And again, I've commissioned a report from the Parliamentary Budget Office in the Oireachtas.

whereby families and individuals would receive a tax credit on their membership fees for sporting organisations that would be capped at €500.

So what would you get?

You'd get 20% back on that.

Exactly, exactly.

So basically the average spend on sports membership per person in Ireland at the moment is actually €415.

So the report I've commissioned is that if we put a cap in terms of the memberships combined of two and a half thousand, that would mean the most an individual person could get back in a calendar year would be 20 percent of that, which would be 500 euro.

So you'd claim this back then at the end of the year, like you do with your GP visits or your your medical treatments, dental and so on.

Is that how it would work?

Absolutely.

So what happened, Clare, you take my own situation and I'm married with four kids and my kids will be involved in GA and swimming and soccer and all sorts of sports.

So as a family, you would add up all your sporting memberships over the course of a calendar year.

And similar to your medical receipts returned at the end of the year, you would send in your return and you would get a rebate based on your actual spend up to a maximum of 500 euros.

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