Mary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would like to thank Peter O'Brien from Special Olympics Ireland, and would like to thank Jim and James for coming in. I sincerely hope that this debate will lead to more people becoming volunteers in the Special Olympics, that it will make more people go to a local community event, that they will become involved, and that they will see the excellent work that is being done with the Special Olympics. I could go on. I hope that we have a further debate.

I am glad that the Minister of State is here, because I know how committed she is and how passionate she feels about the area of disability and what we can do. We should have sport here, but we should also representatives from the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The Special Olympics goes right across every single Department. If they worked collectively, we could make this even bigger and better than it already is, and something to make us even prouder.