Dr. Una May:

Only to reiterate what Ms O'Connor has said. Sport Ireland has been working very closely in the area of women's and girls' participation in sport.

We have put a great deal of emphasis, in particular, on the work around teenage girls because the level of drop out from that age cohort is a very significant concern for us. Ms O'Connor has identified some of the work we have been doing around coaching teenage girls. We have been working, in fact, on a European project expanding on the coaching of teenage girls in order to roll that out at a wider level, which has been very well received.

In our research around teenage girls we identified key issues which were barriers for their participation and, again, Ms O'Connor has alluded to a number of these around their perceptions of their sports, for example. Social media has a role to play in those areas, not so much around the abuse as around how they perceive their environment and contextualise their own participation in sport within social media. It was not necessarily identified in our research as something which was a key issue or as a barrier for girls and there were very many other broader and more substantial barriers for them. We have worked closely with RTÉ on the new programme they have just launched in the past week or two around retaining teenage girls in sport and have done a very significant amount of work in this area.