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

Photo of Malcolm ByrneMalcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that Mr. Ó Lionáin cannot speak for the Department, but we cannot have one section of the Department operating in a space where it is not listening to the concerns being expressed by NGBs, the Federation of Irish Sport, sports stars and ordinary volunteers. We have heard from Ms O'Connor that the social media companies are not responding to this problem. I cannot speak for all my colleagues but I think we all share the view that those concerns are not being reflected in the legislation.

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