Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Inclusion in Sport: Discussion

Ms Amina Moustafa:

I will answer and then I will hand over to Mr. Drury to see if he wants to add anything. The topic of today’s hearing is "inclusion in sport" but what SARI focuses on is inclusion through sport. We use sport to address racism and discrimination and to educate through the medium of sport. Sport is a powerful learning tool. We can utilise sport to educate people on the values that are so important to Irish society. SARI continues to implement anti-discrimination workshops across the island of Ireland. We are going into schools. We have more than 3,300 primary schools in Ireland and, so far, we have been in more than 200 schools delivering educational workshops through sport. We talk about what it feels like to experience discrimination. It is very much unpicking some of the complexities to racism and discrimination and about bringing communities together to better understand each other and building relationships.

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