Mr. Donal Conway:

The support we give the clubs is not in the form of a blank cheque for any one club. We have introduced under 13s, under 15s, under 17s, under 19s, and the elite player pathway for the best young players in the country, who are all now playing for the 20 clubs or the four entities outside them such as the Mayo league, the Kerry league, the Cavan-Monaghan league or whatever. I do not want to give the wrong impression about a player. I never believed in the old model of exporting them and saying "To hell with the consequences". The best young players now will move through the ranks of our League of Ireland clubs. There is a €60 million spend in the pipeline for infrastructure in League of Ireland clubs and this highlights the key role of public funding. The single biggest part of that is the development at Dalymount Park, which will transform the quarter in which it is located. There are others and we work with the relevant agencies to effect and promote such projects with local authorities or central Government so that we get a stream of money into the League of Ireland.