Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. I thank them both for their professionalism and dedication to Irish sport, as well as meeting the objective set by the Government to increase participation rates and the distribution of Covid stability funding to our main sporting bodies.

The return to sport expert group is chaired by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Sport Ireland has representatives on it, along with the different sporting sectors. It is crucially important when we exit level 5 restrictions that mechanisms are in place to ensure people can go back to competitive sport, be it schoolboy soccer, underage GAA and rugby. Ensuring there is consistency around competitive sport at underage level is important. We need an action plan to ensure that it is well communicated after Christmas and into the new year.

Is the national sports campus available to all sporting bodies, be it soccer, rugby or GAA, from all different parts of the country?