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- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I ask Ms O'Connor to conclude. I am sorry to speak across her but we have run over time. We are very curtailed. Back in the day, before the pandemic, we would have had meetings that could go on for hours but we are restricted to two hours tonight. I want to make sure we get to tease out the issues as much as possible. I thank Ms O'Connor and call Ms O'Rourke from the LGFA.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms O'Rourke for her comprehensive presentation. I call on Ms Gemma Begley to make her presentation.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms Begley for another insightful presentation. I also thank her for her time and effort for putting it together for our members. I call Ms McNulty to make her presentation.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Can I interrupt Ms McNulty very briefly? We are having a technical issue this side. If she turns off her camera and turns it back on again, it might resolve itself. We have her again. She was frozen a few minutes ago.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Could I ask Ms McNulty to conclude as we have gone over your time? She will have the opportunity to come back in and extrapolate the points she made. Does she wish to make a closing comment?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms O'Connor, Ms O'Rourke, Ms Begley and Ms McNulty. I know their contributions will inspire many questions from our members.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is no problem.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Thirty seconds.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is a great suggestion. All the members and witnesses present will agree with that. We will see that this letter goes to the Department containing those requests.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Would Senator Cassells like anyone in particular to respond?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: In that order, ladies, away you go.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Do I see Ms O'Connor offering?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Senator Cassells for all those questions and his long statement. I call Deputy Griffin.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is fine, Deputy Dillon.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Senator Carrigy is next.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Griffin for those questions and our guests for their answers. Deputy O'Sullivan is on the line now.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Andrews for joining us today. It has come to my contribution. I thank the witnesses very much and most sincerely for their presentations. I hope they feel they have got plenty of time to expand on the points made in their presentations. I have a couple of questions with which I would like to begin. First, I was very struck by Ms O'Rourke's opening statement in which she...
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms McNulty. I ask Ms O'Connor to answer my question on the 20x20 campaign.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Does Ms Begley have any final comments?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: We have reached the conclusion of our meeting. I thank all the contributors today. We have all got a real insight into the issues, challenges and successes of the various organisations and the work they are doing. I thank them most sincerely for being with us at this hour of the evening. I thank my colleagues for sticking with it. I also thank Deputy Andrews for joining us today. At...