Maria Byrne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise; I was at another committee meeting earlier. An area that I have a keen interest in is sport and I support many sporting organisations. I have heard some of today's discussion. When people are abused, be they the referee or the player or whoever, is there a support mechanism across the organisations that supports the referee at such a time, because some people go through horrific times?

Senator Malcolm Byrne covered some of my questions around the social media aspect and whether it is driven. I thank the witnesses for the response to that. My main question had been about the whole social media side and whether there are support mechanism. It is important there are proper supports in place for somebody, especially when they have experienced abuse. We often hear of people being abused in different walks of life. In sport, 99.9 times out of 100 people's involvement is in a voluntary capacity. It is terrible to think people believe they have the right to abuse others.