The Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Dr McDaid, is to meet the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) following the sentencing of the former national and Olympic coach, Derry O'Rourke, to 12 years for sexual abuse of young girls.
Dr McDaid offered last night to meet the victims next week to hear both sides.
"The option is open to the victims. If they wish it, I will certainly meet them," he said.
One victim said yesterday that she and other women were taking advice on civil action against the IASA and the school, which cannot be named.
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to 29 offences against 11 girls between 1976 and 1992.
The IASA received £230,332 in funding from the Government last year. This included an annual grant of £92,632 and £72,000 for international competitions.
Dr McDaid said he would wait to question the IASA before responding to demands for an inquiry or disbandment of the organisation.
Last night one of Ireland's best-known swimming clubs said it was leaving the IASA in protest at its handling of abuse cases.
The Triton Club in Bray, Co Wicklow, whose most celebrated member is the former international, Gary O'Toole, said it was quitting the national swimming body over its handling of complaints about O'Rourke and another former national coach, George Gibney, named as a childabuser in 1994.
There were complaints from victims after yesterday's hearing about Judge Kieran O'Connor's questions to victims who wanted to make statements to the court. One woman said she would lodge a complaint with the President of the High Court.
Seven of O'Rourke's victims gave statements after harrowing details of their abuse were read to the court by Det Garda Sarah Keane on Thursday.
O'Rourke's wife, Julie, and one of his six children, his daughter Kristy, gave evidence in his defence yesterday. Mrs O'Rourke said they were a very happy family "and still are". The case would not affect their marriage.
"He prays for the girls. He'll never forget them in his prayers," she said.
Giving evidence in his own defence, O'Rourke apologised to his victims, their families and friends and to his employers and the "swimming fraternity".
"I consider it a blessing that when I was first interviewed my first reaction was to pray for the people I offended," he said.
Mrs O'Rourke said her husband had undertaken a FAS course with the Salesian order in Maynooth and their religious faith was "all we have at the moment". She asked the judge to "think of my two smaller children", aged 14 and 10, when he was imposing sentence.
Earlier, one of O'Rourke's victims told the court: "He violated me and he ruined my life, and all the prayers in the world won't change that."
Judge O'Connor said two threads emerged from victim impact statements. The first was that the victims hated Derry O'Rourke and that was understandable. "The other thing is that they've been very badly scarred by the way you treated them."
The Fine Gael spokesman on sport, Mr Bernard Allen, called for a review of all sports organisations and the implementation of the existing code of ethics.
The ISPCC called for proper vetting of all child-care workers and volunteers. "In the absence of a clearly agreed national screening system the growing number of guidelines and codes of practice will not be implemented due to a lack of clarity around legal matters and good practice imperatives," it said.
As O'Rourke was taken from court the women and their families hissed and clapped. "We just want to see him in his handcuffs," one woman had said earlier as officials tried to clear the court. "We've waited 20 years for this."
