Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 18 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Sport in Ireland

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Obviously we are looking at stadia. We probably also need to look at some purpose-built sports facilities where we would have the likes of indoor soccer. While I accept that generally team sports were sorted, I refer to ad hoctype training scenarios taking place in these huge multipurpose facilities offering multiple slots for multiple teams. In those scenarios, everybody would be particularly distanced and removed from each other and all the rest of it but they probably fell between stools in respect of rules and so on. That is something that needs to be looked at. An awful lot of people who engage in sport are not necessarily doing so in set teams. It is the case of the couple of fellows who meet up on a Monday and a Thursday. They all think they are Lionel Messi, but they are not. Such a person could be sitting in this room at the minute, thinking he has a twisted ankle. That is myself I am talking about.

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