Mr. Tom Ryan:

Attending a football or hurling game at whatever level around the country, should be - and I hope is - a family-oriented, community-oriented, safe, friendly and welcoming experience. However, we do not take for granted for a second that this will always continue to be the case. We must mind, guard and protect that culture. When I say that we will learn from our colleague organisations, I mean that sincerely. I do not mean that we are any better than anybody else but some of the issues that have arisen in the context of Gaelic games would be individual incidents or involving individual people. I hope people will acknowledge that in the most recent, high-profile such incident, we acted swiftly and promptly to address it. We did that in the interests of making sure that our games continue to be safe, welcoming, family occasions. We are very open to learning from our colleagues in other sports. We are also very open to learning from this committee, from Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport about what we can do to ensure that welcoming environment continues to prevail.