Mr. Mark Scanlon:

From an FAI perspective, we are right now in the middle of our football camps, which are fantastic. We have kids, including my own, who will be out and about in the next two to three weeks participating daily in those camps. There are many grassroots programmes across the FAI to encourage participation, as well as the more than 1,500 clubs available for boys and girls to sign up for. At the League of Ireland level specifically, and the League of Ireland clubs, if we were to go back about a decade, they were probably justt the men's senior teams playing in a men's senior league. Now, though, they have grown massively to include men's teams, women's teams, academy teams and, really importantly, huge outreach to their local communities as well. Over the last three to four years, we have seen massive outreach in terms of disadvantaged areas, where the clubs are providing free football drop-in sessions. They have even been able to do some work in areas like prisons, for example. Disability football has also been huge. Earlier I mentioned the Down's syndrome Futsal programme our clubs deliver. We have clubs now that have amputee teams and clubs that have powerchair football teams providing football for wheelchair users. A huge amount of additional work has been done in the communities as our clubs continue to expand.