Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Elimination of Abuse Towards Referees, Officials and Players in Sport: Discussion
Mr. Tom Ryan:
The Deputy might know of a particular ongoing case. I will not comment on that, because the penalties have been proposed. It was fairly high profile and the appeals process is still ongoing. If Mr. Smyth does not mind, I will defer to him on past experience of the scale of penalties handed out. The full suite of penalties is available to us, in terms of match and time period suspensions, loss of games and expulsion from the association. I cannot answer how often the extreme has been applied. I do not know off the top of my head, but Mr. Smyth might be able to help the Deputy with that.
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