Ms Mary O'Connor:

There is value in having a working group of key stakeholders. I call it a working group because sometimes things can get lost in translation and a working group will have key timelines and so on. The key stakeholders would include a plethora of very important people in Irish sport, including Sport Ireland Coaching from that side of the house, supporters groups, media representatives and academia.

It is important we look at that in the context of what we want to try to achieve in Irish sport. As I alluded to earlier, very many national governing bodies are doing great work individually in trying to eradicate abuse from their sports. This working group could come up with a safeguarding and education toolkit but could also develop into a campaign we are all part of. Previous campaigns the federation was involved in, like the 20x20 campaign, had a huge impact on the growth of women and girls' sport in this country because people could connect with it and understand it. I do not think there is anybody involved in sport at any level who would not have witnessed or been involved in abuse at some level. By creating a stakeholder group of that size. you will get an understanding of what the challenges are and what the opportunities are as well, because we have to face challenges. There are difficult conversations. There are some people out there who do not think this is a problem. They think it is all part of sport. Unfortunately, they are the people we probably need to challenge the most and let them challenge us back, but we need to have a very frank conversation on this.