Mr. Barry Sheridan:

That is a facility we are considering. We are expecting proposals from insurance companies on that at present. We are also consulting with experts in the field. Again we have limited expertise in our team. We have five staff members for more than 500 sheds. We are a young, constantly-evolving organisation but we are looking at how a group scheme might work for an umbrella organisation. It is also important to stress that no two sheds are exactly the same. We might have a shed in Ballinteer in Dublin, who have just social meetings. They come together and they meet. It is important to remember that first and foremost, sheds are social spaces in which the activities are decided by empowering the men to make the decisions. If a shed that is meeting purely on a social basis is compared with a shed with a large workshop where the members might be creating bits and pieces, they are not the same. It is difficult for insurers to categorise them as one. That is a real challenge for us. We hope to make considerable progress in the next few months on the matter of insurance and see the options available for sheds. One of our main priorities is to try to see what can we do and what can the insurance companies do to arrive at an option. We hope that raising the issue today will help to bring the issue of insurance to the fore and help us in that journey to try to find affordable and reasonable rates of insurance in order that sheds can continue to have the impact at a local community level they have had to date.