Mr. Philip Browne:

The first thing we did at the onset of the crisis was put together a club sustainability fund of approximately €500,000 and tried to assist clubs facing significant financial challenges. We also distributed a Covid starter pack containing materials designed to help clubs open their grounds once games started opening up again. That was probably worth another €100,000 as far as equipment was concerned. Since then we have been very successfully running a series of webinars with our clubs about how to deal with the financial situation and how to raise funds themselves. We used ideas from the different clubs contributing to the webinars and the sharing of experiences has been really helpful and successful. We also have a club fundraising programme whereby we put up the prizes for a lottery-type scenario, which generates significant funding year-on-year. That has been put in place again this year. We are doing the best we can. We are trying to educate, facilitate and to assist wherever we can, and the clubs have been very receptive to that.