Mr. John Horan:

In fairness to school authorities at both primary and post-primary levels, they were under enough pressure with the return to school. They have made clear decisions to postpone school games for a period until they get more comfortable in the environment of running a school. The challenges in going to school matches are slightly different from those in going to club matches in that parents would bring the individual child. In school one would look for a large number of children to be moved from one venue to another, and there are challenges there. School activity will therefore be suspended for the moment. Under level 3, juvenile activity will be suspended. That is a challenge possibly facing Dublin this weekend. At our Cúl Camps, the parents of every child who goes to a training session have to complete a questionnaire confirming there are no Covid factors within the house for the child. In that context I think it is a safe environment for children in which to play. As the committee will see from the statistics from our summer camp activity of 71,000 children taking part in our camps, we have good structure in place. My young lad goes to his training session. The children are broken into pods the minute they arrive at the training session and it is all organised in a very structured way. I am therefore comfortable that the activity of younger members, juveniles, is well catered for. Unfortunately, however, under level 3, there is that possibility that within Dublin this weekend, that will be suspended.