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. David Britton:

We celebrate our centenary this year. Recently we came under the governance of the GAA's coaching and games development department. We have extra access to the internal departments of the GAA. This has been significant to help us on the integration journey. In 2019 the GAA created a purpose-built national handball and community centre. There is the financial help in the background. We see ourselves as a sport that is integrated from a gender perspective. We had our national small alley finals last weekend. The ladies' senior final took place before the males' final took place. They all happened in conjunction. The Minister of State with responsibility for sport was present and said he would like to see more of this in mainstream sport as a whole, whereby the two finals would happen together. At a grassroots level or lower level we could probably do with a little bit of extra support with infrastructure. Everybody is probably at in and around the same level. Everyone is looking for additional support. As a whole, our story over the past year and a half is that additional integration in the GAA through coaching and games has been a massive bonus.

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