Dr. Una May:

Yes. It is not really up to me to determine how local authorities distribute their funding, but they invest very significantly. We have done a review of all the local authorities and their investment in the areas of sport and recreation. As I said, that covers everything from the development of parks - for young children, playgrounds are physical activity - and recreation through to their overall infrastructure for sport. It is not for me to determine where they spend it, but I appreciate that there are significant differences between local authorities depending on their size, population and abilities.

In conjunction with the Government, which has been funding it, Swim Ireland has developed facilities. West Wicklow was one of the recipients of a pop-up pool recently. It is an initiative that allows us to - pardon the pun - dip our toe in the water to see what the demand and need is, and fill some of the gaps around capacity for kids to have access to somewhere to learn to swim and that sort of thing. It is very important. The Department is working on a national swimming strategy and it may have some views on that side of it.