Mr. Ger McDermott:

From the League of Ireland or an elite perspective, the footballers identify as footballers first and foremost. In terms of initiatives, as the Senator rightly noted, we do a lot in the grassroots space to encourage participation and openness. From a League of Ireland perspective, we recently launched some specific and new campaigns around this. Most of that is around visibility, awareness raising, encouraging people to be open and ensuring that clubs create the right environment. That does not necessarily mean that a male player is going to come out and say that he is a gay footballer but what we are trying to do is ensure that the environment that players walk into every day is as open and as welcoming as possible, in the hope that one of those players, some day, will feel comfortable enough to speak about it and to tell their own story. I will ask Ms Rafferty to talk about the work we are doing around player welfare which relates very closely to this.