Mr. Denis Duggan:

I am happy to take that. The jumping high performance committee has been reconstituted. Terms of reference have been chaired and we have clarity from a HSI perspective as to who will fill the seats we are responsible for. Earlier in the summer, we wrote to Showjumping Ireland with the terms of reference of the committee. I can double-check the exact date, but I think it was around May or June. We asked it to provide a nominee and it has not done that. Regardless of the existence of the high performance committee or otherwise, there is an obligation on it to provide the funding. It has been providing the funding for 15 years in the context of high performance sport. From a Sport Ireland perspective, it needs to see funding coming from the organisation that holds the membership. Since HSI was set up, we are not the membership body. Unlike some of the other sporting governing bodies where they might have a club structure, people join their local tennis or golf club or whatever and they are affiliated with the national body, we do not have the same structure. Members join one of the affiliates, be it Showjumping Ireland or Eventing Ireland, and that is where the contribution for high performance sport is supposed to come from.