Mr. Donal Smyth:

The funny thing about refereeing, which the other boys would also say, is that when the referee submits his report, it is for the CCC to deal with and it goes on from there. There is some frustration around some decisions of the CCC in refereeing, as to the way they are dealt with and that kind of stuff, but each county keeps its own records of abuse and such. How do we wrestle that all together to get a true picture of what is happening? We have been involved with Dr. Noel Brick in Ulster University to try to get the true picture of what we are dealing with. It is hard to do so unless one has empirical evidence to deal with what we are dealing with. The reality is we do not have the true figures, because each county keeps its own and we will not have them until we get a centralised system.