Dr. John Bosco Conama:

I would have liked to have responded to Senator Byrne, but he had to leave. I would have liked to have given him some information on hate speech and hate crime before he left. However, Ms Browne's question was about the exclusion of deaf people in sport. At the moment, we have some issues around deaf people being included in mainstream sport. Deaf people are involved in sport. There is a deaf Olympics. We have participants on teams in different sports in the deaf community but with more children going into mainstream education, it is hard to find out where they are in order to get them involved in sports. Mr. Maguire has been trying to do that but there is a challenge with general data protection regulation, GDPR, restrictions. We do not know what schools these deaf children are attending and are dependent on getting access to parents in order to find out where the children are. That is a big challenge for us in the deaf community. Our topic today is broad. I have listened and agreed with everything I heard. It was powerful. The concerns of the deaf community would require a more in-depth discussion. I agree that many of the issues are to do with attitudes on a basic level about inclusion in sport.