Professor Mary McAleese:

One of our major responsibilities is to ensure that it is integration, not inundation. We do not want the codes that are integrating to be overwhelmed. We do not want the smaller of the three associations to be overwhelmed by one. From day one, that was on the table. It is something that we have looked at very carefully to best manage it and ensure that, in an integration model, that camogie and ladies Gaelic football have full profile, authority and as much autonomy as needed over their own rules and the development of their own code. We also had to consider how to make sure that their visibility within the organisation is not just maintained, because that would not be enough, but developed. As we have talked about it more, the realisation has grown that this is a tremendous opportunity for women in Gaelic sports. It will allow them to make available to this new GAA their skill, experience, insight, wisdom, power and energy. They will do so as full equals. We will rely on structure but we will also rely on people to be strong, stand their ground and give the leadership that will help. The Deputy mentioned things like social media. There are various different ways of profiling but, at the end of the day, we want the people who really believe in this process and are quite determined to make it happen. We have seen these people and they are legion.