Mr. Seán Fleming:

I am the person in my school to whom all the governing bodies probably come because I am the head of the PE department. That is my job. There is nothing better than a governing body coming in and giving something different from the major field sports. I may well have been in one of those schools that chased out Mr. Fahey because we were a Christian Brothers school and there was none of that ground control football in our school for a long time.

There are programmes out there that could get more participation. Under women in sport, we have run a programme since October, and 800 more girls are doing judo. Our aim is to keep one third of them and we are confident we will do so. We do not expect that the only thing they will do for the rest of their lives is judo. I am speaking about judo, Mr. Adams is speaking about rowing and other witnesses are speaking about different sports. We introduce people to sport. Some of our judo players might go to rugby, rowing or tennis, and that is what we are about also. If we can get some for our own sport, that is brilliant, but the problem comes down to finances. It is also getting the right people into schools. Then we come to vetting and other issues. We do not have any judo development officers in the Thirty-two Counties. The only people who get into schools are those who are self-employed and earning a living. Fair play to them because they are doing a service for us. They are doing what we would love to be able to do, which is put people into schools, but we do not have the finances to do so. This is not a criticism, rather it is just that there is not the money to do it.