Mr. Ger McDermott:

Parents' education is really important. We rolled a parent education workshop five or six years ago which clubs and coaches at club level can take. I am happy to share information on that with members after the meeting. It effectively holds up a mirror to people of their behaviour. It is only when people on the touchlines and sidelines, particularly parents, are shown their behaviour played back to them or examples of how they behaved that they realise how poor their behaviour was.

Some 33% of our clubs are currently engaged with our clubmark accreditation programme and under our next strategy we want 100% of the clubs to be engaged in the programme.

As part of achieving accreditation on an annual basis each club would need to work with its coaches to have a parent education workshop delivered to every parent in the club. I hope that in time the workshop will become part of club culture. That speaks to some of the points some of the Deputy's colleagues have made on the role clubs must play. The associations need to provide clubs with resources so we are able to help with this matter. A parent education workshop exists.

We are acutely aware that many of the children who play our game play other sports such as rugby and GAA games, so when we educate parents on ways to eliminate abuse, we are not just educating them for ourselves because, hopefully, such education will cut across to other sports too.