Mr. Sean Benton:

I wish to respond to specific points raised by Deputy Ellis. One of his questions was on other possible sources of funding, and we have touched on the matter here. The Bill will provide for public private partnership arrangements. The campus authority is actively seeking sponsorship arrangements for some of our facilities, particularly the larger facilities. That is an ongoing issue for us.

The Deputy asked specifically about minority sports and mentioned his own sport of karate.

Minority sports, specifically karate, were asked about. The indoor arena is not just a running track. There is another part to it, namely, a massive multi-purpose hall which will provide for a range of approximately 20 different sports, including contact sports, such as judo, karate and volleyball. That will be part and parcel of what we will provide. As in the case of the aquatic centre, those facilities will be available not only to elite athletes. They will be there when those athletes need them but we will get the maximum use out of them by encouraging local and public participation and school programmes and so on to avail of them.