Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Carrigy for his comments and I thank our guests very much for attending. This is always such an interesting discussion to have and we are doing the players, the coaches and the spectators a service by having this conversation and keeping it going because, as Ms O'Connor said at the very beginning, this is a culture shift which has been allowed to happen in the past and we are now saying that it is no longer acceptable. It will take some time to change the minds and the thinking of some, but not of all.

I thank everybody for attending and we look forward to hearing from our guests again. We will now suspend briefly to allow the committee clerk to arrange for our second session with representatives from Screen Ireland, the Arts Council and Creative Europe Desk Ireland for a round-table discussion on Ireland in a creative Europe and Ireland's participation in and access to the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme. We will suspend our committee meeting now for a few moments.