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. Cormac Spain:

I am a primary school teacher. I teach sixth class in an all-girls school. For me, looking down the line, they are coming into a great standard that we have set across the LGFA and the Camogie Association in particular for what they are involved with. The FAI has done good stuff in recent years in keeping young girls in sport.

As for the background to the GAA, the LGFA and the Camogie Association, we are still relying on volunteers. For our club, we are looking at what our volunteers are currently doing, whether that is sustainable, whether we are putting them under too much pressure and whether there is access to resources that can relieve them in a way. We are continuing that culture of welcoming volunteers and hanging onto them rather than somebody coming into our club, potentially walking into a logistical nightmare and leaving after a year and a half of doing it. It is about how we hold onto that, whether that is a case of extra funding towards clubs or a pathway, like Ms Groarke said. That is my view of it.

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