Mr. John Horan:

The Deputy is quite correct. An average of 91,000 respondents reply to our health questionnaire. One very positive outcome of that health questionnaire being filled in every day on an app is that it keeps an awareness in all those families, because if it is a juvenile player, the parent completes the questionnaire, and obviously if it is an adult player, they do it themselves.

However, it keeps that conversation going in the family of whether the questionnaire has been done before returning to training.

On mental health, we carried out a survey recently and 51% of respondents believe that the pandemic has had a negative or very negative impact on their mental health and well-being. Approximately 75% agreed or strongly agreed that the pandemic will have long term implications for the mental health and well-being of society, while almost 80% agreed or strongly agreed that mental health services will require additional resources to deal with the impact. As an organisation, we have our own community and health unit within Croke Park which deals with the mental health issues within the association. We are conscious of mental health but as an organisation we believe that these issues will become even greater going forward and extra support will possibly be needed in that regard.

Our relationship with Sport Ireland is positive. There are two aspects to it, the first of which involves the safe practices which allow games and training to take place and the second is the financial aspect in terms of continuing to keep the organisation viable throughout the country. As has been mentioned already, the funding that was put in place is to see us through to the end of 2020 but this is a matter that will need to be revisited if we are, as an organisation, to remain viable going into 2021.