Gender quotas a welcome start, says camogie chief

The announcement by Minister for Sport Patrick O’Donovan yesterday that sports bodies will have State funding cut unless at least 30% of their board members are female was broadly welcomed yesterday.

Joan O’Flynn, chief executive of the Camogie Association, described the move as “the start of a process” and pointed out boards with fewer than 30% male members would also need to change.

“I’d certainly welcome the debate on it, a debate I’m sure will mirror the debates we’ve seen recently about quotas in politics, quotas on the boards of corporates and state boards and so on.