Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Three weeks ago the CEO of the Federation of Irish Sport, Ms Mary O'Connor, was sitting before the committee. She has brought forward a charter to deal with abuse of officials in sport. We had a very good discussion and departmental officials were also present. Something she asked for was that terms of admission would be linked with State funding from the capital sports grant, whereby all of the 1,900 clubs that were awarded €150 million by the Department in February and are in receipt of State funding would have a sign affixed to their grounds stating the terms of admission, including that abuse of referees would not be tolerated and that such abuse would lead to rejection. Mary O'Connor is a decorated sportsperson. I ask that her proposals be progressed.