Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department consults with members of the public across a range of the Department's functions, including two formal public consultations processes since the start of 2012. A draft National Sport's Facilities Strategy was published as a discussion document on the Department’s website in September 2012 inviting comments by end October. Submissions were also invited from interested parties, by end October 2012 on the future role and remit of Sport Ireland and how we might best deliver for sport in Ireland. (Sport Ireland is a new organisation which I propose to establish to merge the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority).

In addition and although not directly under the remit of the Department, over  50 Community Town Hall meetings were held this year all over Ireland to get communities involved in preparing for and identifying events for The Gathering Ireland 2013. These meetings were attended by thousands of people and hundreds of events and Gatherings have been identified by local communities as a result.