Mark Wall (Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is one other issue I want to raise. I understand that the Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media with special responsibility for sport and physical education, Deputy Thomas Byrne, is meeting today with representatives of the three largest national sporting organisations. That is very important, and something I have raised before. We need a national campaign regarding the abuse of officials and referees. I know on Thursday that we will get a chance to speak about that here in the Seanad, but that is a very important meeting today and I thank the Minister of State for organising that meeting. However, for the sake of hurling, we need to see it on national television as much as possible.