Ms Marguerite Kavanagh:

Yes, particularly in relation to high performance. It is becoming more and more difficult. We have had difficulty getting budgets approved or actually getting sight of budgets and that has really impacted our high performance. Horse Sport Ireland works within a constitution. It has its own committees and all the committees have terms of reference. I know from being part of the dressage high performance committee in the past that one of the key elements of that group is to review the spend at high performance level against approved budgets. However, that is where the issue is - we have not had approved budgets with a couple of years. More often than not, we get the actual spend but that is no good if the horse has already bolted. We need to be kept in the loop on where the money is going because we have members to whom we are accountable. It is important for us that we know that and that we have some influence over spending and can give advice on it.