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

Dr. Úna May:

Okay, I understand what the Deputy is saying there. We have a governance code for sport, which is a voluntary code, and we are constantly reviewing that. We are in the process of a review at the moment, which may or may not extend the requirements on national governing bodies. That is a consultative process that is under way. I have not had a chance to ask Helen to give some input on the good work that is taking place in Sport Ireland in terms of the guidance and the work we are doing in extending beyond the issues of child safeguarding in sport. We are doing a very important project right now looking into safeguarding beyond children. We have identified very comprehensive-----

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