Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It must impact. The witnesses are far too young to remember Atlanta 1996 when Sonia O’Sullivan was red-hot favourite going into the distance races. She had an off day. She had an illness on the day and underperformed. She and the whole country were heartbroken. It reminded us that athletes and certainly women in sport have to encounter many issues. We have to remember that side of it.

The witnesses touched on the dress code with Senator Cassells. Is that an issue? In Wimbledon they have amended some of the dress code requirements for women’s tennis. They had to wear a skirt at one point. That is no longer the case but there may still be a colour dress code and athletes have to wear white. Is that something the witnesses came across?