Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Sports Capital Programme: Discussion
1:30 pm
Mr. Seán Fleming:
As a point of information for the Senator, in the same way as all the other governing bodies here, we have an adaptive judo programme. It arranges for a mainstream approach where children and adults are trained within their own club. Recently, however, we have opened up a club in Belfast for children with autism only. It is a thriving club. We recognise in judo that inclusion is very important, and I am probably speaking for everybody else here in that regard. It is not just to do with the high performance players or those on the development programme. We are here to develop sport throughout. I wanted to mention that because we look on that special club as one of our success stories.
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