Professor Mary McAleese:

That is an objective, obviously. On the day that we have integration, everybody will be a member of the one organisation and they will all be members on equal terms, that would disappear anyway, one would like to think. The whole ethos of integration is to smooth out all those historic imbalances and cultural, if you like, inequities. I use the word "inequities", but they are just realities, are they not? They are the kind of things that we have been trying to finesse. Integration will undoubtedly help to finesse them.

One thing that we have not really said here, which is important for Government and, indeed, local authorities to take on board, is the massive, unquantifiable, leveraged voluntary effort that underpins the GAA, the LGFA and the Camogie Association. We have 600 camogie clubs; who runs those? We have 1,600 GAA clubs and 1,000 ladies' Gaelic football clubs. These are people who are investing in school, parish, community, county, province on a weekly and very often a daily basis. If you were to quantify the investment in wellness, health and sporting and entertainment opportunities for our people, you would be talking many more millions of euro outside of the actual millions that Mr. Ó Broin just referred to. That is a very important element because we do not always find it in other sporting codes.