Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed)
10:50 am
Mr. Ger Ryan:
Yes, this is something at which we are looking continually. We had quite a lot of debate on it before introducing our present system and is something we continue to review. There is a balancing act in this regard. As it fundamentally is a player welfare issue, somebody should be taken off. Were someone to break a limb, that player would not be able to continue even if all the substitutes had been used at that point and this case is comparable. The priority here is that somebody be removed as a player welfare issue. Other than that incident to which reference was made, we have not seen a situation in which somebody did continue. It is something we are monitoring continually and absolutely is something we are willing to consider but we have not decided to change it at this point.
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