Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport
9:00 am
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
In terms of team sports, we talked about broadening participation levels. Looking at over 35s and over 50s, for men and for women, and also disability team sports, is enough being done or can more be done? I know it is easy to say that more should be done, but it seems that it is almost culturally accepted that once someone gets to his or her mid-30s, he or she stops playing team sports. I think that is a pity because we are conditioned to participate in team sports from a very young age, yet when it comes to the mid-30s, people have no other avenue to do that. Is that something that is being worked on within your organisation?
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