Mr. Ciaran Kirwan:

I will take up on where I was interrupted by Deputy Dooley. I intended to say that we were successful before the high performance unit. We have been even more successful since the initiation of the high performance unit and are very grateful to have received taxpayers' money for the unit.

Taxpayers' money has, in effect, allowed our elite boxers to become full-time athletes. That was the key difference. That is why, despite our previous successes, we have had more concentrated success. That was the point I was going to make before I was interrupted.

I want this to be made perfectly clear to the committee. I spoke to the athletes and coaches personally last Friday. We in the IABA and those on the board are absolutely bursting with pride at the achievements of our high performance unit and boxers. They are the very reason every schoolboy and schoolgirl walks into a boxing club, whether in Manorhamilton, County Clare or one of the underprivileged areas of Dublin. They go because of people like Katie Taylor, Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan. We are under no illusions about this. This thing that has been propagated in the media that we are somehow resentful needs to be put to bed. Not only are we not resentful, we are incredibly proud and have no intention of ever not being involved. I do not know if I can be any clearer than that.