Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

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

Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion

Mr. M?che?l Naughton:

As we have said and have always alluded to, it is the 3Fs. Fixtures and facilities are two of the big ones, along with finance. With regard to facilities at the moment, there are pitches available and we are getting games played but there are more teams. We have seen from our figures that our sport is growing by 12% year-on-year. The GAA and camogie, too, are growing. We need more facilities. We have to look at what we have and the schools and, perhaps, colleges where there are pitches and to work with them. There will definitely be an onus on getting more pitches. Part of why we are here today is to put that out there and to talk to political leaders with regard to going forward on that. It is one of the things we will need going forward. We need to have pitches and to be able to play our games.

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