Dr. Una May:

Participation in schools is the children's sport and physical activity research that we are about to embark on. The data we have at the moment are a few years old. That research collects data about the participation of children and young people. Our Irish sports monitor covers data for people aged 16 and older but younger age groups' participation in school sports, after-school sports and what we refer to as community sports, that is, clubs and activities outside of school, will all be gathered in those data.

The Senator raised the publication of the reviews by the IRFU. Obviously, we would prefer to see those reviews published. It is important to note that Sport Ireland funds the sevens and from that point of view we would expect that report to be published and we would expect to have an influence on the decision whether to publish it. However, the IRFU is the main funder of the women's 15s team so we would have less of a role to play.

We would be very interested in the possibility of a new campaign. As is obvious from our presentations today, much of the work we have been doing is about building a structure and infrastructure in sport that supports women's participation. We are coming closer to a situation where we can see the value in a further campaign. We have run a number of specific campaigns, such as the teenage girls ones Ms Stapleton mentioned. Next spring, we will start on the research for another new campaign, in partnership with the Department of Health, around physical activity for older women. We also ran HER Outdoors campaign. We identified from our research that women have enjoyed participating in the outdoors, as we were driven to do during the pandemic. They enjoyed participation in the outdoors and we have promoted opportunities and options to be active in many different outdoor activities through that campaign. I hope that answers some of those additional questions.