Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

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

Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion

Dr. Una May:

The reality is we do not have an issue with anybody who does not have a policy in place. The fact they have access to the sports dispute resolution mechanism of the federation ensures, even for the smaller governing bodies that might not have the supports and the infrastructure from a point of view of management of the organisation, if it is a small volunteer organisation, that they do not need to have access to a full disciplinary process of their own and can adopt the process that has been provided to them. That ensures this is not a challenge for us. Access to disciplinary procedures is not something we have never had an issue with, to be honest. We have made reference to anti-doping. We have specific disciplinary procedures around areas where there is a requirement and, clearly, there are areas around safeguarding that are forwarded to the appropriate authorities. There are, therefore, different mechanisms around these areas of discipline and behaviours within sport.

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