Mr. Gerard Dollard:

The Deputy's colleague raised that specific issue earlier and referred to the same percentages to which he referred. I will make a few comments on that. If the Deputy looks at our accounts, he will see that our payroll costs have decreased every year since 2015. They are €1 million less now than they were in 2015. The percentage will always go up if one is maintaining the same infrastructure and the same number of stadia but one's income is going down and attendances are reducing.

It comes back to the issue as to whether we can financially sustain the extent of the stadia network that we have, which is something that Indecon is looking at.

On the point about employees, it is a labour-intensive industry. One needs stewards, judges, racing staff etc. We have been controlling costs and reducing payroll costs and we hope to continue doing that.