Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I touched on this earlier. I said the term "fund" is a bit of a misnomer. There was a hypothecated tax up to 2009 but the reality is that what happens now is a negotiation in the context of the normal Estimates process every year and funding is made available through the Estimates. Part of the justification for this is that the full cost of the Estimate is more or less covered by the betting tax. There is a tenuous link between the funding provided now and the betting tax. In other words this betting tax is not taken out of one account and put into another for the benefit of these bodies. It is not hypothecated in this way. This is the way it has operated since 2009.