Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 4 October 2017.
Minister, thank you for your answers to date on this. I take the point that there’s a body of evidence out there that is worth exploring, but I agree with the sentiments that you’ve put that proportionate action is what is required. As someone who likes to think he’s benefitted from contact sport over the years and whose children have been involved in all sorts of sports as well, I see the wider benefits. But it does form an obligation on us as politicians and, indeed, you as a Government, to work with the governing bodies in sports that are identified as contact sports to make sure that the most up-to-date facilities are available where those sports are played. I’d be grateful to understand what interaction you have with the governing bodies—because we see it at the Millennium Stadium, you know, doctors on the touchline if someone is concussed et cetera—what facilities are available, at the more community level, to make sure that no-one is exposed to unnecessary risk and those proportionate steps that you talked about are adhered to at a community level, where most people play this contact sport?