Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My time is running down. The language used by the IRFU is quite hostile. It stated that the responsible approach would be to allow the review process to conclude, but the ethos and the thrust of the demands in the statement from the players was that they had no confidence in the reviews to begin with. We saw that governance change only happened in the FAI when money was withheld in the last term and it was starved of funding. Will that be put on the table? The IRFU and the women's game is part of that. Will it be said to them that, if governance changes within this sport do not happen, the generous supports that it gets from the State will be withheld?

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