Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am asking for this to be included in our work programme. When we are discussing the governance of the major sports it would be helpful to explore this area and how this issue could be subsumed at an early stage into standard governance. For example, we have seen the role that has been played with regard to matters such as safeguarding youngsters. It is important that this area is taken on board in a comprehensive rather than reactive way. It may well be that we could make some suggestions about policy changes in terms of grant aid as a consequence of doing this piece of work.

I think the organisations themselves may have something to tell us about how they intend to go forward with this. In addition to the bodies there, Sport Ireland probably covers the rest of the other sports, so perhaps the four bodies rather than the three would be a better fit.