Mr. Cian Ó Lionáin:

The Secretary General has emphasised the most important point in all of this, which is that due to the cyclical nature of how sports capital grants are awarded, drawn down and paid, there can often be underspend, but no individual club will ever miss out. Due process is given to them. It can take them a number of years to draw down grants. We currently have more than 2,000 older grants on the system dating back a number of years and there is potentially more than €60 million payable there, but those individual grants might not be drawn down for a number of years. Individual clubs might have legal issues they need to clarify in conjunction with the Chief State Solicitor. There might be questions of matched funding, etc. However, we take a very sympathetic approach to them. If a club has been validly awarded a grant, we will do everything to try to work with it to make sure it can be drawn down. In terms of the underspend, we carried over as much of the underspend as allowed under public accounting rules. The bottom line is that no club will miss out and we are constantly working with them to encourage them to draw down and manage budgets over successive years.