Ms Deirdre Duke:

There is a point I wish to make that did not occur to me earlier because we are all Dublin based. Since there is an increased amount of training, under what is pretty much a semi-professional programme, the girls coming from outside Dublin have no real base or accommodation. They have been making use of hotels and so on, which is a major expense. There is a certain amount of accommodation in Sport Ireland that could be of use. In the build-up from May onwards, we will be training for seven days a week.