Ms Jacqui Browne:

It is important that we are not left out of the discussion. Education and the whole issue of funding are important but one thing that concerns me across society, not only in sport, is that it is always up to us to do the running all the time and seek funding to deliver stuff. We need mainstream society to act. We need the public sector duty to be implemented as a course of right by all sporting bodies. There is an expectation for them to undertake this work, rather than us having to get little bits of funding to do little pockets of training. I get more cynical, the older I get. I have been in this arena for more than 40 years. I am blue in the face from education. We need to not only educate, but to plan, deliver and do. There are loads of wonderful courses. People come along to them and say they were great and that they enjoyed being informed for the two hours, but what is coming out of it? Funding is a sop for some agencies to say they funded a group or organisation so they have dealt with that issue. That is not inclusion. Can I give an opportunity to either Dr. Conama or Mr. Maguire to talk about the specific example of the exclusion of deaf people in sport?