Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Concussion in Sport: Discussion
10:40 am
Professor John Ryan:
Certainly the sporting bodies would need to be involved in the legislation and information gathering. There is the issue of how we can get the statistics for those with head injuries. That data are collected by individual sporting bodies and they need to make the reporting of injuries sustained to players mandatory and collate the data that way. Having a central database collection from all the sporting bodies would give us true national figures of where we are at with head injuries.
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