Dr. Una May:

It is up to the bodies, in that they have a responsibility. In particular, the three large team sports have a strong commercial element to the development of their sport. They have a huge remit to deliver. Sport Ireland supports each sport. We work with 60 governing bodies to develop grassroots elements in their sports. We promote and develop opportunities for community sport but are not generally involved in the development of the high performance end of those sports, other than in the broadest sense of our support of high performance sport. It is a separate issue. We provide development opportunities, club supports, training, education and all the supports for sport at local level, which is what we are referring to on the whole. That is key to our role as a development organisation, as opposed to a regulator of the highest levels of commercial activity in these sports. They have a responsibility to develop and promote their sport at the highest level. They are large organisations with a large remit and are obliged to support that remit across everything including club, community, youth, female, senior and elite, depending on the sport.