Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I endorse everything that has been said. During the election campaign, the Minister and I were in Kiltimagh and Ballina with men's sheds. The local sheds are doing phenomenal work but the national organisation is struggling with success.

The national organisation is an incredibly hard working team which is trying to co-ordinate all this activity. Some time ago, when Deputy Ó Cuív was Minister, there was a programme to support national organisations growing at the rate at which the men's sheds is growing. There are huge local supports for sheds but without national co-ordination, they will certainly not grow and any plans to move them around the world will not proceed either. I ask the Minister to engage with the national organisation to see if a funding stream could be found to support development workers and give them some back-up that would support the work that is being done on the ground.

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