Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when restrictions placed on indoor training for inline figure staking will be lifted, given this is a non-contact sport which has been very negatively impacted by the Covid-19 restrictions on indoor training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44818/20]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's Framework for Restrictive Measures which outlines the overriding public health rationale for the suite of measures applicable to each of the Framework's five levels. Under this Framework, apart from elite and professional sport, no indoor training activity is currently permitted. 

It is a matter for the Government to decide on the imposition and lifting of restrictions to be applied in response to the pandemic circumstances prevailing at each of the five levels of the Framework. The gravity of the current epidemiological situation does not permit Government consideration at this time of an alteration to the restrictions applying to indoor training.  The Government's clear message is for people to stay in their homes, unless necessary for those essential reasons set out in the public health regulations.