Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

No, but to a large degree the issue was relevant to our relationship. We had a positive relationship with the office and the staff of the OCI, as well as with the officers in the funding of the Olympic Games and the athletes. We have positive relationships. For example, arrangements for the use of the Institute of Sport and our facilities at Abbotstown were the subject of normal agreements. As Mr. Treacy indicated, we entered into operational agreements.

Unless the law changes, I have a difficulty with the idea of going into an organisation and telling those involved that we do not like the way they are running it, the way they are making decisions or the way they are electing people. If we were to take that approach, we would end up in courts of law every day of the week. That is a fact. Whether we like it or otherwise, if we were to do that, we would have any one of the sports bodies challenging us and asking under what law or regulation did Sport Ireland have the right to intervene in that way or what authority it had to do so. I have been conscious all along that the last place we want to be is in courts of law on the issue of jurisdiction.

As Mr. Treacy outlined, what we do is provide as best we can all of the support mechanisms required by the sports bodies to bring up the level of their corporate governance. We have made it an issue within Sport Ireland in our strategic and business plans that these are the norms which are required to be implemented by the sports bodies under the State's voluntary code which is not long in place following the scandals in the charity sector. We do not want them to be repeated in sport. Thankfully, there are not many scandals.

I again come back to the point that the issue of ticketing and accreditation and everything else is not within our remit.