Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. We do very well in supporting elite sports through maintenance of the participants but that sport, in particular, has a large capital requirement that other organisations do not. I am anxious the Minister can look into some funding to assist. There are only a couple of sporting organisations with the same capital requirement. I do not expect an answer now but I am making the point that it may be useful to establish a fund that sits apart from the maintenance provided to athletes at a particular standard. We must look at something on the capital side of things.