Mr. John Treacy:

Yes; much of the money goes to that. I will give the Deputy a flavour of where the money goes shortly, but the big impact is in that area. For every euro we invest with the three main field sports, they put in from €3 to €4 into those programmes. Therefore, the State is getting very good value for its buck. It would be nice to have a physical education system in primary schools which the State supports, but that does not happen. To a large degree, these three field sports and the governing bodies sector move in and provide for sport in schools and outside of them through extra support.

In regard to the GAA, the funding goes to the national grassroots programmes.

They are essentially development officers who are on the ground with the clubs going into the schools and supporting those programmes. There is also hurling development where we work to develop hurling throughout the country, which was an initiative by Government. We also give funding to the Dublin board, which is at €686,000. Again, the GAA itself decides where that money goes. We give it a budget and it comes back to us and tells us how it is going to spend the money.