Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 18 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland

Mr. Philip Browne:

Unpalatable looks like something different from what we are doing at the moment. At the moment, we have a very successful set of structures, a very successful professional game, and we have good success in terms of grassroots rugby. Effectively, if we cannot generate revenues to support those activities, then we are going to have to reduce them, which inevitably means redundancies, lay-offs, scaling back programmes, and maybe scaling back the professional game. All of those things have a negative feedback in terms of the sustainability of the sport. That is why it is unpalatable and we do not want to be going down that road, but ultimately, we have to live within our means.

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