Dr. Una May:

Coming back to the earlier point of our role and our position in these situations, capital funding is a matter for the Department. Having said that, and coming back to the concept of having a functioning NGB, if we had entirely shut down the FAI, these kinds of developments would not be co-ordinated and structured in the way in which they were. As part of our development role, we encourage and support governing bodies to be ambitious, to be innovative and to work towards ambitious goals. I would say that the strategy they launched was just that. It was an ambitious strategy. We have not been asked for an opinion. We have not seen any business case behind the matters. Yet, really when it comes to sports capital, this is a matter for our colleagues in the Department. However, we encourage NGBs to be ambitious. We saw that as an ambitious and forward-thinking proposal.