Mr. Colm Croffy:

Let us look at the sports capital programme, the rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, and the rural and village schemes that have been rolled out as a model of template, and I was being a bit facetious about the lights. The beauty of those schemes is that they factor in volunteer hours on the production of the capital. If ten of this man's colleagues want to assist in painting the backstage area, that will be factored in. If 25 of this gentleman's colleagues want to mow the lawn and maintain the landscape of the two pitches, that is not a problem. If we go under an Arts Council-led capital scheme, no local will change a lightbulb because of the operational costs and the technical specifications that are required to fulfil those schemes. I have filled in a few sports capital schemes applications at community level and I have looked at the schemes run by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. They are far more community-sensitive in how the money can be drawn down. I still think what was said earlier is correct, that you cannot exploit capital at the expense of animation. A methodology of funding animation at the coalface has to be found that is better than the ones we have.