Ms Ger McTavish:

I thank the Deputy for that really good question. Now is a great time to talk about the Get Ireland Active website that Sport Ireland has rolled out in the past number of years. That Get Ireland Active website looks at accessible facilities, where your club is, where your trail head is, where your local swimming club is and where your local cycling club is. It gives an opportunity for anyone to get active. In the last picture on the brief that I provided to the committee, it showcases a map of Ireland and where the facilities are. It also shows the facilities that are accessible, which means they may have a ramp or a beach ramp to access the beach. They may have accessible toilets and may have accessible sports equipment. They may have accessible bikes.

A lot of the work you can see happening through the local sports partnerships is through the local council.

Every local council has training on Get Ireland Active and they facilitate getting the data into that online portal. It is a website for everybody. Anyone in public society can go online and look at what is in their local area from the perspective of any sport or club, trail, outdoor walk, activity and gym. It is also being populated by our local councils, our national governing bodies of sport and our sports inclusion disability officers. It is giving us a picture of Ireland and what is accessible. It even has dog-friendly accessible maps on it as well. It is a specific platform that has been rolled out through Sport Ireland.