John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

As Senator Feighan will be aware, one of the stated functions of the authority is to encourage and promote the use of the sports campus by people participating in sport at professional and amateur levels and by members of the public generally. In this context the authority will encourage and promote the use of the campus by a wide variety of groups. This promotion will be targeted at both male and female sportspersons and I am reluctant to make specific reference in legislation to any particular group as this could simply result in tokenism.