Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Inclusion in Sport: Discussion
Ms Karina Murray:
The way we understand how diversity and inclusion funding is done now is that it goes to national governing bodies and they decide what work they want to do on it. If they receive €100,000 and decide they do not want to do anything about LGBTQ+ promotion in sport they are not held accountable for it. There are no targets that they have to meet. They can decide to spend it all in other areas, which are just as important. As has been stated, we all want to work together. We do not necessarily have an input. The funding goes to governing bodies and sports partnerships and they decide what inclusion work they want to do. Some governing bodies are great and others have no commitment to work with our community. The inclusion money does not necessarily help our community unless a governing body decides it wants to do it that way.
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