Sport for Business will be live this morning at the launch of the new National Physical Activity Plan.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar will be revealing the output of substantial work that has gone ion over the past year on combining the worlds of health and physical activity which will make the country healthier and save money from health spending in future years.
Last Saturday’s Operation Transformation walks around the country attracted 19,000 to multiple locations, a near 50 per cent increase on 2015 and there is a genuine sense that people are more ready now than ever before to get active.
Sport for Business is pleased to be involved on the board of the new Dublin City Sport and Wellbeing Partnership which is developing a strategy on how those two strands can become an ever more integral part of living and working in the city and this plan will be a major part in steering the thinking of the group.
It has been longer in delivery than first planned, in the main to get the full commitment of the many different Government departments that will need to step up in order to produce a common sense but also a complex set of initiatives and targets.
The world of connected health is being driven out of sport and technology and will in the coming years transform the way we all take responsibility for our own activity.
Government has a major role to play in facilitating that ownership of our own future. We look forward to seeing today how that might look.
