Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Inclusion in Sport: Discussion
Mr. Fintan Drury:
From the board's perspective, what we are working on right now is trying to increase that from 200 to 2,000. The young women who gave evidence to the committee earlier represent the cohort that SARI needs to be speaking with, or in fact a much younger cohort than the two schoolgirls who spoke to the committee. Nationally, we need to attack the issue of inclusion through sport, although not exclusively. Sport is one means by which it can be attacked at grassroots level and at schools level. It is not just football. We had people giving courses yesterday in two Gaelic clubs in Leitrim. That is what we are happy to do across all sports, using the different federations and using the education system, but we need resources. We do not believe the resources should only come from the public sector. We will get private sector support provided the private sector sees that the public sector is saying this is really important and this is fundamental to the community we wish to build in order that future generations can live happily and peacefully.
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