Dr. Una May:

I guess there is a couple of questions there. One of them was around Sport Ireland's role as a development agency. That is something we take very seriously. We believe that we can transform the sector and help the sector to transform and to go through periods of difficult change as it becomes more professional. That is where we see our key value in what we can do, and the expertise we can offer and support we can provide to the sector.

The withholding of funding is something that we do not do lightly. It is very much a last resort because our preference, our understanding and our belief is that withholding funding does not really help to grow and build capacity in an organisation.

To follow on then to the Deputy's specific question about boxing, boxing has made a lot of very good progress. We met, only last week, with the new chair of boxing - a new independent chair. In recent years, they had a number of issues within the organisation and with governance and the relationship between both. The relationship with the executive and their boards is an issue in a lot of governing bodies and we are supporting them to understand better the boundaries and the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved.

We worked with boxing. They commissioned the MacNiece report. We funded the report. It came up with a number of recommendations. The initial reaction to those recommendations was not positive.