I call for a debate on the participation of people with disabilities in sport. Many governing bodies have what I would describe as tokenistic inclusion and disability officers. Some make a genuine effort. For example, the FAI has its Football for All programme and there are other governing bodies that make an effort. However, in my view, there is not enough being done at all to create a level playing pitch - pardon the pun - for people with disabilities to meaningfully engage in active living and sport. I am a former board member of Active Disability Ireland, which did great work with governing bodies over the years, through Sport Ireland, to promote inclusion in a soft way through competitions, certificates and awards. Some organisations and sporting bodies did make a decent and genuine effort.

We are about to announce the bones of €100 million in sports capital grants. I would like to see this being proofed in such a way that clubs that get grants have to demonstrate that they are open and accessible to all people, including those with disabilities. I know that one of the criteria is that they have to demonstrate that their facilities are open to others, if needed. However, I think a lot of it is box ticking. I do not believe there is genuine openness in the case of some of them. We have a huge amount of work to do to make sport genuinely accessible to people with disabilities. I would very much welcome statements in the House with the Minister of State with responsibility for sport on this specific issue, preferably ahead of the announcement of the sports capital funding.