Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for accepting the proposals we put forward on the sporting organisations. It stemmed from a thought-provoking congress when Larry McCarthy, the president of the GAA, put it forward that sporting organisations needed to get on board in this regard. I believe that in the past month, the GAA has engaged with Google. The Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, was recently in Croke Park to work on this issue. I am delighted that a provision that they would liaise is being put into the legislation.

I also ask that consideration be given to the Sport Ireland Act with a view to perhaps putting in something there to make sure that every sporting organisation actually puts it into their code of conduct. This is the point I was making at the beginning. Each individual sport has its code of conduct and penalties for people who do not adhere to it. I ask that this could be looked at as well. I thank the Minister for including this in the Bill.

I compliment the GAA. I might be a bit biased because I am involved in the association but it has been very thought provoking, has been ahead of the game by getting out ahead of this legislation being put in place and has started to work on implementing it within its organisation.