Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge all the Senator's points. The 20x20 campaign was successful and brought so many different groups, organisations and the media together. It was a great success and we recently discussed it with the Federation of Irish Sport. The campaign was run for a particular point in time but there may be scope for doing a new campaign, as the Senator suggested. I am open to doing anything to improve and strengthen the visibility of women's sport. A key focus of our women in sport policy is to strengthen that and I will support any measures in that regard. Sport Ireland's leads are constantly focused on visibility as a key pillar of their overall strategy. We are very much open to any campaign and will support any campaign around the area of visibility. It is very important.

The Senator raised the issue of boxing. As I said to Senator Malcolm Byrne, I wrote to the IABA on 3 December expressing my concern and asking it to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. Separately, there is the independent governance review and a dispute resolution process is under way among the individuals involved. That is the current update on that matter.

There is also a sport dispute solutions structure that offers mediation and arbitration within organisations to try to resolve issues within sport. That is independent. This is something in which Sport Ireland has expertise when it comes to issues that are raised within sporting organisations. Many disputes have gone through that process. The most important thing is ensuring matters are resolved to the satisfaction of everyone involved and that there is a constructive pathway forward.

The Senator mentioned issues around what is made public. As I said, Sport Ireland is always available when concerns are raised and it regularly deals with matters that are raised by people within sport. There are dispute resolution processes there. Sport Ireland will be able to give further detail on that. If something specific is sensitive, it may not be published but that depends on each individual matter that might be brought to the attention of Sport Ireland.