With Galway's great win over Dublin last Saturday, I received a huge number of phone calls, some before and many more after the match, from people who were very aggravated that they could not watch the two championship matches on Saturday afternoon, Roscommon versus Armagh and Galway versus Dublin. Many of the people who contacted me are the people who built the GAA, former players and officers of the clubs who gave their time and commitment to the GAA in years gone by. Many people look forward to sitting down at the weekend and watching the GAA championship. A lot of them are pensioners who have no access to Wi-Fi and cannot afford to pay for it, so they do not have access to GAAGO. They simply do not have the expertise or the resources to avail of, and keep paying for, the GAA championship and to travel to Croke Park on a Saturday for 6.15 p.m. Will the Taoiseach meet the president and the director general of the GAA and find a solution so that all championship matches are aired for free on our national airwaves?

There is no need to be provoking or rubbing salt in the wounds of Dublin Deputies, but I congratulate Galway on their win at the weekend. The Deputy raises a very important issue. The last time I raised it there was a lot of tut-tutting from top brass in the GAA and they were very disappointed with my comments, but I would say this to them, respectfully. Far more people are disappointed with how this season has been shown in terms of GAAGO. They should not listen to me if they do not want to - that is grand - but they should please listen to the grassroots of the GAA. The GAA is an amazing organisation and its beauty has been that it is a grassroots organisation. I have said many times that the GAA needs to listen to the grassroots.

I was at the Cork-Limerick match in Páirc Uí Chaoimh earlier this summer. Unfortunately, many people across the country did not get a chance to see the game because it was behind a paywall. The same, indeed, was true for the game the Deputy referenced, between Galway and Dublin, last weekend as well. This is a matter for the GAA. When we talk about public service broadcasting and RTÉ, I think there is also a role in that dimension too. There has to be a better way of doing this. I am certainly a big supporter of the GAA, as is the Government, but it should listen to the grassroots. I absolutely look forward to meeting the president of the GAA and the director general, both of whom have reached out to me on this issue.