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

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I understand that but obviously there is some issue here that people coming through this process are not aware of it, or there is some other issue.

I thank all our witnesses for coming in. I want to sum up on a few issues before we conclude. There was a request from Senator Ní Chuilinn - she referenced Swim Ireland - in relation to how organisations deal with this issue, which we now have colloquially referred to as a concern versus a complaint, and the elevation process and the processing of all of that. It would be great if Sport Ireland could co-ordinate a response to the committee, with a cross-section of organisations. If any committee member wants to refer any organisation, they can do so, otherwise it will be in Sport Ireland's hands as to how other organisations deal with this. I ask that it bring that back to us. I suggest it should be from 1 January 2020 onwards. We do not just want to hear about how they deal with it now. We need to know the situation historically to do a comparison with this scenario. That is the first thing. The second thing is, as I said earlier to Mr. Courell, six requests were made. By the way, we reserve the right to make other requests subsequent to this discussion. I will set a limit of two working weeks on that for documentation. That is pretty normal for us as a committee. Does Mr. Courell want to make an observation in that regard?

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