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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Does Mr. Ó Lionáin wish to come in?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr Ó Lionáin. I am going to have to draw this to a close. I thank Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan for that line of questioning. I am now moving to Senator Carrigy. The floor is his.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Who would the Senator like to respond to his questions and observations?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Okay. Is Senator Carrigy satisfied? He has a little bit more time.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Okay. I thank Senator Carrigy very much. I will move now to Deputy Fitzpatrick. The floor is his.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: No pressure.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Fitzpatrick for his line of questioning. I will now call Senator Cassells, who has been awaiting his speaking slot eagerly.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I am informed that will be incorporated into the report we will be doing on this and forwarded to the Minister as well. Is that agreed? I think there is unanimity on that proposal from Senator Cassells and I thank him.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations and for answering all the questions and observations from my colleagues. I thank Ms O'Connor for the very pragmatic and practical template she has brought to us. It is more than a template; these are guidelines we can apply and they are very useful. I wanted to tease out recommendation 6 a little. I do not expect Ms O'Connor to have all...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Pile on.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: We know from previous hearings that the drop-off for young girls in sport can happen around 14, 15 or 16 years. Do the witnesses have any idea or sense of the impact social media has in this regard? Is that any part of the reason for that fall-off, particularly for young girls?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: It has a huge impact. If we went back to when we did not have social media and compared that with now, I am sure there would be a stark difference. Did Dr. May have any comments to make on those questions?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Social media, then, is not seen as having a big impact on Sport Ireland's research.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: That surprises me, I have to say. I thank-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I call on the Deputy to stop there, please. Does Senator Carrigy want to have a final word?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: We have heard it all now. I call Senator Carrigy to speak now with the final say.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Senator Carrigy for his comments and I thank our guests very much for attending. This is always such an interesting discussion to have and we are doing the players, the coaches and the spectators a service by having this conversation and keeping it going because, as Ms O'Connor said at the very beginning, this is a culture shift which has been allowed to happen in the past and we are...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank all the ladies for joining us today. They are all very welcome, as are my colleagues. Our second session today is with representatives from Screen Ireland, the Arts Council and Creative Europe Desk Ireland. We are going to have a round-table discussion on Ireland in a creative Europe. This, of course, is on the back of the recent Europe Day, so it is a very exciting and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: If Senator Warfield is happy with that we will move on. I call Deputy Cannon.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: My apologies again for being absent for our guests' initial presentations. I have tried to quickly catch up. This is so exciting. Much of it is new to me. I want to focus on promoting the work our guests do and engaging with organisations. I am looking at the map produced by Europa Cinemas, which is really interesting. Sadly, I do not see too much happening in the Border area from which...