Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has developed the specific guidance with the relevant sectors as promised in the Living with Covid Plan published on 15 September 2020 to take account of size and different conditions of very large purpose built event facilities for holding organised indoor and outdoor gatherings and larger events as foreseen under levels 1 and 2 of the Plan; if not, the reason; and when the specific guidance will be developed. [23858/21]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the date, time and participants of all meetings held between her Department and the relevant sectors to develop the specific guidance for organised indoor and outdoor gatherings and larger events as promised in the Living with Covid Plan published on 15 September 2020. [23859/21]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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285. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the membership and terms of reference of the Return to Live Entertainment Working Group;and the details of the time, date and minutes of any of the meetings of the group. [23861/21]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when children involved in elite sports will be able to train indoors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24001/21]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Subject to the prevailing public health situation, the Government has recently decided that individual indoor training for all age groups and all levels may resume from the 7th of June. The Government will make further decisions in due course in regard to further lifting of restrictions on activity indoors.

A limited exemption is currently in place to enable high performance sportspeople to continue their sporting activities, indoors and outdoors, principally focused on allowing our high performance athletes and teams to qualify and prepare effectively for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The applicable definition is that contained in the relevant public health regulations, namely those athletes that:

- are in receipt of financial support provided by Sport Ireland under the scheme commonly known and referred to as the Sport Ireland International Carding Scheme

- compete at a senior level and are participants in a high performance training programme of the national governing body of the sport, which body receives, from Sport Ireland, financial support commonly known and referred to as the Sport Ireland High Performance Programme Funding

- are professional sportspersons who receive payment for training and playing sport under a contract of employment with a soccer club or the rugby football organisation commonly known and referred to as the Irish Rugby Football Union

- are members of an inter-county team, at senior level, in a competition organised by the organisations commonly known and referred to as the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association or the Camogie Association

Additionally, Sport Ireland may, in consultation the Health Service Executive, provide certification to additional High Performance or Pathway athletes. These are athletes that represent or have the potential to represent Ireland at an internationally competitive level.

Any athlete seeking certification under these legislative provisions should in the first instance apply to their National Governing Body. Sport Ireland assesses each application in accordance with the provisions and criteria set out in the above-mentioned Regulations.