Ms Ger McTavish:

I thank the Senator for her question. We work very closely with Age and Opportunity. It is one of our funding agencies and it rolls out programmes across the country, specifically targeting older demographics. We have 29 local support partnerships, and we also have a sports inclusion disability officer who has a specific remit to work with people with disabilities. The local partnerships run initiatives and co-ordinate programmes with the services. They are the link at grassroots and club level. We have just started a network of those groups. We had sports inclusion disability officers from national governing bodies, NGBs, and local sports partnerships come together last week for a networking event to identify the gaps and the resources and supports they need as sports inclusion disability officers. These key personnel on the ground at grassroots level are linking into local councils, and our grants, funding and resources, as well as into our NGBs for sport, progressing that, so we have personnel there who can support that work in the national governing bodies. We are seeing those hugely positive results with Sport Ireland as well.