Jim Mitchell
Question:364 Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the different reports commissioned and published by him since the Government entered office in 1997. [30444/01]
Written Answers. - Departmental Reports.
The information requested by the Deputy is as follows: in February 1998, the Government decided that an Independent Inquiry into Matters relating to Child Sexual Abuse in Swimming be carried out by Dr. Roderick Murphy, SC, Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. The report was made public by the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Tourism, Sport and Recreation on 17 June 1998. Following publication of that report I asked Dr. Breda McLeavey, chairperson of the expert committee which drew up the Code of Ethics and Good Practice for Children's Sport in Ireland, to reconvene the committee to review the code's contents in the light of Dr. Murphy's report. The revised code was published in November 2000.
An analysis of the drugs strategy was commissioned by the Minister of State at my Department in July 2000 and its findings informed development of the new National Drugs Strategy, 2001-08 published in May 2001. Finally, in June 2001, an independent overview of the cost of the stadium and Sports Campus Ireland project was commissioned. The Government has yet to make a decision in relation to publication.