Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach
Mr. Eoghan Duffy:
-----there was dialogue on sport with the then Minister of State with responsibility for sport in January 2022. Obviously, there are schemes for capital investment in sport North and South that the Government and the Executive run. They are the major way of investing in sport. One of the things that came out in the dialogue, and is included in the action plan for sport, is the need to get the sports bodies and agencies, including Sport Ireland and Sport Northern Ireland, to see how they can do more together. They already work together but we want to see how they can do more. The two sports agencies are working on that and are to come back to us with something.
There was a specific theme as part of that on sport and a number of proposals have come through from sports organisations. They are bringing sports clubs and organisations together to do things on an all-island basis. There are different ways in which it is being brought through.
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