Sports Funding
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-19
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Aindrias Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

There are several groups of people, including those whom we want to encourage into sport and those who are involved in sport whom we want to retain. I am involved at a number of levels with Naomh Abán's ladies' Gaelic football team. Throughout ladies' football, playing careers are getting shorter and shorter. Girls are dropping out at age 16, 17 or 18. This is similar in other sports and so many other clubs. Is there an initiative that can be taken to ensure people stay with the sport or, if they do not want to stay playing, that they stay in some way or another with the club and stay active? These are people who have a positive disposition towards sport and we should look to encourage them or keep them involved in some way. Will some of this funding be focused on keeping people participating for longer?

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Sitting date: 2023-10-19