Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Kirsten Pakes:

As I said, it needs to be in line with our policy, and our policy covers children and vulnerable adults. It is concerns outside of a statutory investigation regarding a child or an adult. I would like to say because I am aware this is all about safeguarding, and we have talked about abuse and mentioned sexual abuse, that this is a very triggering subject for people and no one has spoken about it. If anyone is triggered by today, they should reach out to the supports available because we have not mentioned that. We have used some important language here, so I do think this is really important.

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