Mr. John Treacy:

The figure is approximately 25% for high-performance expenditure. In real terms, we deliver in high performance right across the spectrum of sports. For the size of the population, we really excel on the world stage in several sports. That needs to be said. We are doing this against the background of Gaelic games, football and rugby, all of which are so strong in the country, but we do it with the other sports as well and that needs to be said.

There are critical aspects to this, such as that we need investment in high-performance training and in some capital programmes. We need capital for high performance for the governing bodies also. We need to kick sport on. We need real investment in terms of the co-funding of the national governing bodies of sport.