Mr. Michael O'Mahony:

In the case of Rathmore Social Action Group, as the committee has heard, the instigator of it was Mr. Jerh O'Donoghue. We are hugely dependent on him. He is a retired teacher and principal from the Rathmore secondary school. He lives close by and is the man on the ground. We are talking here today about sustainability. Without Mr. O'Donoghue, it is not sustainable. In the absence of the kind of model that the Deputy was talking about in which there is core funding for a manager role, a chief executive or whatever the title is - somebody who can manage the day-to-day activities - it is quite likely that it will fall apart, irrespective of the best attempts of a voluntary board of directors who have full-time jobs themselves. They are in a governance role and a visionary role but they cannot do the day-to-day management that is required.