Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am as keen as he is to get back to watching a match and getting back on the stands. I am increasingly confident that is going to be possible over the course of the summer. We will make a decision on this at the Cabinet meeting on Friday. I can say that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, have worked up some plans to allow a number of trials of outdoor sporting events with spectators - thousands of spectators - to happen across June and July. Hopefully, we will be able to give the green light for that on Friday and, as well, allow resumption, not as trials but just in ordinary course, with smaller numbers like 50, 100 or 200 attending county grounds or smaller grounds.

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