Mr. John Treacy:

Without a shadow of a doubt, we have done very well in equestrian sports down through the years. It is a sport that fits with our natural environment, which is why the Government initiated the work in 2007. The unfortunate thing is that our funding has been reducing, which has had a knock-on effect on Horse Sport Ireland whose funding is down perhaps €400,000 over recent years. HSI currently allocates €84,000 to events throughout the country. They are broken down to about eight different events, as part of which Camphire gets €5,000. It is never enough in terms of some of these events which are huge and very important to local economies. It is the nature of things, however, that funding is down. The funding was higher in the past, but it is down now, which is a reality of life. There is huge demand in regard to some of these shows.