Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

We are on target in regard to Tokyo. We are working very closely with the Olympic Federation of Ireland and the Paralympics. We have our plans and are looking at contingency. We are just waiting for announcements from the IOC. Next year, particularly in the first six months, there will be a big emphasis on all the international competitions that were put off this year. We will need those for some of our athletes to qualify. There might be a rush but the vaccine will help if all the predictions prove to be the case. We will be giving priority in our campus in the Institute of Sport to ensure that all our international accredited athletes will get the vaccine as a priority for their travel abroad. The new truncated period between the games in Tokyo and Paris will be only three years. There will be a lot of emphasis and pressure on that.

We have had very little drop out from our international accredited athletes. They are all still raring to go. It has been an interruption but they have continued and we have given the exemption to allow them to train in our facilities at elite level.