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. Brian Molloy:

It does. When I gave my initial speech at our congress after having been appointed, I drew attention within our association to the fact that we engage and talk about the importance of female participation in sport and getting support for it, but we are not always great at supporting each other in that regard. Camogie supports camogie. I asked delegates how many of them had gone to a ladies Gaelic football game and vice versa. There is a piece there. The phrase I used at the time was around an integrated mindset. We are working towards a 2027 delivery date for full integration. There are all the operational pieces, facilities and infrastructure that need to be developed in that space but there is a mindset piece that we need to work on as well. It is a mindset piece around the members of the three associations operating and making decisions through the prism of asking themselves what decisions they would make if we were an integrated organisation now and whether they would make a particular facility more available to the Camogie Association or the LGFA. It is about members asking themselves if they would make different decisions if it was an integrated organisation now. Getting our members to that space is going to be very important from our perspective.

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