Cecilia Keaveney (Fianna Fail)

I value the Minister's answer but it emphasised North-South co-operation rather than sport for all. Will the Minister go back to the agencies and explore the concept of tasting the other, non-traditional sport? Everyone is happy in his or her little clique and will work within that clique, whether North-South or South-North, but the problem is to get them to move from their traditional comfortable base to the sport they would not usually try. These cliques are usually religion specific or divided by religious majorities. The Minister says there must be a North-South value but it is possible to get to know the "other" through sport. While we deal with ensuring that the rules are all together and that we have the same ethical codes, there is another challenge that has not been addressed yet and I would like to think that the Minister would examine that.