Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the team from HSI. I will focus on HSI's strategy priorities for 2023 to 2024, which the witnesses have circulated to us and which were very helpful. While they only teed up some headings, I want to break out some of them with them. I have only four of them and I will take them one at a time.

On the development of HSI's sustainable funding model, the witnesses talk about the diversification of State fundraising and exploring the potential for PEACE funding. That is a natural opportunity, given that HSI is a 32-county body, which many people do not know. That is significant. Equestrian sport is usually popular on every part of the island. The witnesses might talk about that, the funding from HSI's Northern Ireland activities and the shared island funding.

I refer to Skillnet Ireland, the synergy with Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, the funding around that and, finally, under this category, the exploration of other EU funding. HSI is looking at that. I would be keen to hear how all that is going, the sources of funding and the type and directions of that funding that HSI might be tapping into in terms of that EU funding. Could the witnesses deal with those issues under the diversification of State fundraising?