Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and she fudged it. She fudged it. There will still be an opportunity when the Deputy gets around to valuing sport rather than just coming in and picking out the latest negativity. What we listened to in Question Time was just another wave of the Deputy's usual negativity.

Women's sport is to the fore of my agenda in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It is to the fore of Sport Ireland, which is the statutory agency with responsibility for it. The sports monitor report was published previously. I have heard no one calling for a debate in this House, neither the Deputy nor anyone else, about why it is that 16 year old girls are falling off the cliff of participation. If the Deputy is so anxious to have a debate on sport in Ireland, let us have it. She could start by deciding what policy she will formulate rather than just the usual wave of negativity.

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