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

What I will say to the Deputy is that we want to see progress on the issues raised by the players and to have a constructive pathway. That is why we have involved Sport Ireland: to have overall oversight of funding and to implement the policy that we set. I am not going to pre-empt the discussions, but all I will say is we will be robust and direct in our engagements with the IRFU. We look forward to meeting with the players as well. I will do that in the first instance.