Mr. Jerome Pels:

The Minister has been helpful in supporting high performance and we have submitted plans to Sport Ireland for next year. We have been assured that in light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo, those needs will be addressed. We expect to be advised of our budget going forward very soon. Deputy Rock mentioned that the successes have been great. The follow-up on high performance has been pretty good as well but growth in the sport presents us with some challenges. The success is inspiring many people to take up the sport but we have noted some barriers in this regard at grassroots level. It will take some time to catch-up in terms of training sufficient numbers of our volunteers to provide the coaching to enable that growth. We cannot say too much about what the Minister, Deputy Ross, is doing because we have not yet heard from Sport Ireland what our allocation will be for next year. We cannot move on that work until we know the budget.