Dr. Una May:

The steering committee of Women in Sport is a sub-committee of the board of Sport Ireland. As a result, it has quite a level of influence and power. Its role is to monitor, advise and support the board and the executive in the implementation of the Women in Sport policy. The steering committee is chaired by a board member, and consequently it has a significant role to play. I reiterate what Ms O’Connor said about gender quotas, term limits and the governance code. We hope those aspects will go a long way in helping to achieve our goals. The first step is governance code compliance, and the next step will be to specifically target gender quotas.

Ms Stapleton is best placed to share details of the toolkits we have available for coaching and for gender diversity on boards. Sport Ireland, as a development agency, sees its role as providing the resources and supports needed to build capacity and to develop the agencies we work with. Those include the national governing bodies, local sports partnerships and the other agencies we work with. Ms Stapleton is closely involved in the roll out of those toolkits and is probably best placed to comment on the matter.