Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I do not believe so. It is merely that funds are scarce, much more so than in the past and increasingly it makes sense for clubs to team up with schools or to come together and agree to share facilities where they can. One of the most interesting models I have seen is in France, where almost every municipality has a very high quality municipal sports centre which is shared by different clubs and bodies. That seems to work very well. Obviously, it is hard to retrofit this model in older established areas where it has not been the norm.

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