Mr. John Kelly:

I discussed this earlier on with Deputy O'Dowd. There is no way around this. It is extremely challenging and all we can do is stay very close, both ourselves and Sport Ireland, to the NGBs and keep an eye on where things are going. As the Deputy said, the virus is changing. It is having an impact. Some places have moved from one level of alert down to another level and that is incredibly disruptive.

As I said earlier, the €70 million was welcome at that point and it really helped. We are not, however, under any illusions that it will be enough for the future. We are currently in the middle of a budget process and an Estimates process. We will engage, through Sport Ireland, with all the NGBs to get a sense of what their requirements are going to be for next year.

I will not lie; it will be difficult to plan with any visibility in the future. We will work on the spectators. We talked earlier about what we will do but we are not depending on that or planning that as something that will fill a big hole. It would be welcome if we got to that point. The reality is, however, that we will need to support the sports sector during this pandemic and that will have to continue.