Mr. Richard Fahey:

Many of the clubs have received sports capital grants over the years. In terms of costs, we have a model whereby a club affiliates to Tennis Ireland. A fee is allocated depending on the number of courts a club has. On average it costs €85 per court. If a court has three courts it would cost three times €85 for affiliation per annum. The clubs become members then, and we ask them to pay €10 towards the governing body. That allows the clubs to play in our open tournaments, leagues and various different areas. That funding is used to run the organisation, to support our performance players, for the running of our day-to-day office activities and to run the safeguarding courses. This year we carried out a lot of work with our member clubs around the sports capital programme. We let them know that the programme was available, how to apply and worked with them in terms of their applications. I sat with 20 or 30 clubs and went though their applications line by line. That all requires funding.