Mr. John Treacy:

I am telling the Deputy that in respect of all the money spent on high performance by the IABA, it was agreed with us how money was spent, because that is the way the money is spent.

I do not have the information regarding who is training at the swimming pool at the moment. Not every sport qualifies for high performance. Clearly, we have criteria for sports that are funded for high performance. The nature of high performance is that you have to win medals at European and world level, so we cannot fund every sport for high performance. It is very clear. We agree performance plans with the high performance sports we fund and we monitor these plans. We meet with them twice a year, so we are very clear regarding any issues that arise and we must solve any problems that the organisation might have. Of course, there are issues that arise with some athletes on an ongoing basis, but it is up to the governing body to a large degree to solve them.