Mr. Roy Barrett:

I will take the betting issue first. Our report identifies that there is chronic underinvestment in football and that the sport needs to look at all funding streams. The current betting tax rate is 2%. It is split 80-20 between horse racing and greyhound racing, effectively €80 million and €20 million per annum goes to those two sports, although close to 40% of all bets placed are on football. Our simple argument is not that funding should be taken away from other sports, but that the betting levy could be increased from 2% to 3%. The additional 1% could be made available to be used by all sports, such as for multisport facilities or whatever. That would represent a permanent funding stream for our sport and for other sports, which could be put to good use in the context of our overall infrastructure plan. Mr. McDermott alluded quite reasonably to all the benefits that accrue to society from people playing sport. Our sport happens to be the largest.