Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Unfortunately, everything comes back to the education system, but schools are doing good work in the form of physical activity and getting kids active. Healthy Ireland is investing a great deal of money in local communities. What is particularly good about this funding is that it is not just going to projects that blanket the country. Rather, it goes into towns and villages in every local authority area and every region. I was on Achill Island, where funding was needed for a programme for people who were inactive as a result of Covid or who were not getting out and were afraid to do so because they had had hip replacements or had been ill, including with chronic illnesses, and did not have the confidence to get active again. There was specific-----