Mr. Hamish Adams:

By way of background, in 2014 we were fortunate to secure a grant of €20,000 from Sport Ireland under the woman in sport programme. The target for that year was to encourage the participation of 2,500 teenage girls. By the end of the year, we had delivered it to 5,000 girls, so we doubled our expectation and the children in the schools love the programme. We take rowing machines into schools and the children compete against each other, and against other schools as it is interactive on the Internet. We could be in here rowing on machines competing against someone in Cork. It is very interactive and fun. In 2017, we delivered the programme to 25,000 children. That is how much it has grown in the space of three years. It has been fantastic for our sport. It is fantastic for the health of the nation and the health of those schoolgirls. It is a non-traditional sport and they have welcomed it. It is something different. All of the sports represented here have something different to offer, and schools would embrace them if we had people on the ground to deliver. That is the key.