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Sport bodies call for necessary core funding in Budget

The Federation of Irish Sport has called on the Government to provide necessary funding for the sector in the upcoming Budget.

They have highlighted four key asks of Government with the top priority being an increase in core funding for governing bodies and local sports.

The federation is also calling for taxation reform, as well as the raising of the betting levy from 2% to 3%, and accelerating insurance reform.

"I think we all understand that there are unprecedented demands on the Government for this budget and also that there needs to be fiscal prudence around it," said Swim Ireland CEO and president of the Olympic Council, Sarah Keane, speaking to RTE Sport.

"But I think for us there just seems to be a continued lack of connection between physical activity and sport and what that does for the health of the nation, and how that may be able to help impact positively on our ever growing department of health budget.

"We need people to be physically active and healthy, but for sport to do its job we need to be better funded," she added.

Keane also highlighted the current National Sports policy, which aims for participation to rise from 43% to 60%, while adding that some of the lower profile sports have struggled since Covid times.

"Some sports have recovered incredibly well from Covid…but in an awful lot of sports, grassroots sport does not have that opportunity, and if we want to increase participation, we have to put more resources into it to the sector to do it," said Keane.

"It is a very small figure that sport and physical activity gets compared to the wider budget, but the impact could be absolutely phenomenal on the nation.

"There is much more awareness in Irish society now about the fact that we need to be careful with

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