Mr. Tom Ryan:

Cash places a burden on those voluntary people the Deputy mentioned, both in terms of the administration and in terms of a security risk. It also makes an event a little more difficult to organise because you do not have, with certainty, an idea of how many people will be there. On the Deputy's point about the supermarkets, off the top of my head, out of the 32 counties on the island, I think there is such an outlet in 27 of those that is within 1 km of the grounds. We are looking to expand that, which we will do in 2024.

We are unfortunate enough to be talking at the end of a season where, I think I am right in saying, we had our best attendances. Tracking the attendance of people for whom Age Action would speak, the figure is about 10%. We are not experiencing difficulty with regard to people in general accessing tickets. I know the anecdotal cases the Deputy has mentioned and I do not dismiss those for a second, but elderly people are coming in significant numbers, and in bigger numbers than ever, to our games.

For obvious reasons, we have not made a big song or dance about this but we have a small contingency programme in place. If people show up to a game, there will be somebody at the venue who will help them to gain access. We put those measures in place throughout the national league at the start of last year. Interestingly, we saw the take up for them start to dwindle week by week as the games went on. In one game in Castlebar, only 11 people required assistance. We were glad to help them, and perhaps there were more who did not come on the day. We are doing our best to make sure that we can accommodate everybody who wants to go to a game, but there are organisational things which we need to bear in mind. For example, if an elderly person wants to go to a game there is comfort in having a ticket in advance rather than taking a chance and showing up on the day. It works both ways.