Mr. Mark Scanlon:

It has been a huge concern already. As Mr. Owens has mentioned, we invested in excess of €3.5 million into both the SSE Airtricity league and the women's national league this year to ensure a return to play, which started on 31 July with the SSE Airtricity league and continued on 8 August with the women's national league. That has been a significant return for us and to do that, we waived affiliation fees and provided support for the clubs' usual costs for referees and match-day operations. We also provided Covid assistance grants to the clubs in order to have their stadiums ready for a return of smaller groups of spectators, as well as making the facilities safe for the players, fans and volunteers. The clubs really embraced that and did a fantastic job, particularly on a voluntary basis, with the appointment of Covid compliance officers in each of the clubs. That return has been very successful and that is why the next steps are important because next year is a concern. We meet with the clubs weekly. We have a strategic working group which met yesterday and the clubs are hammering home their concerns that next year, in the absence of fans, it will be difficult for them to continue unless we are able to provide that investment again.