Sport and Recreational Development
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-10
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

Deputy Donnelly and I will take a minute each. I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I welcome the commitment regarding the memorandum of understanding. Those girls, their coaches, parents and communities are looking for a timeline in respect of what will happen now and how soon all of this can happen. I played in the DDSL 25 years ago. It is a huge league; there are tens of thousands of kids. We are talking about 400 in this case. Surely, there is a way to get this resolved as soon as possible. It is really needed. It is about providing football for girls, which has such a benefit for them in terms of development. It has to happen.

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