Mr. Denis Duggan:

The Government funding cannot be used for staffing in the passporting function. The passporting function is run commercially with the exception of some small amount of funding for specific areas which are funded under the equine technical support scheme. With regard to the rest of the Government funding, it comes from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is a little over €5 million for national breeding services and we receive around €2 million from Sport Ireland, and again, that is to fund high-performance sport.