Mr. Niki Potterton:

These are rough enough figures but on the funding front, I think Horse Sport Ireland gets in the region of €1.7 million from Sport Ireland for the high performance programme across the four affiliates here. The affiliates get about €800,000 of that and approximately €900,000 goes into the administration of the fund to us, and whatever other administration is involved in foreign entries and all of that. We in Eventing Ireland put about €70,000 or €80,000 into the fund and we get twice that back to spend. The issue we see with that is we put in the €80,000 but that is where it stops. We then have no input into what way that money is going, what direction and where it is being driven towards. That is down to communication. We feel we would just like to be more involved. We are a one third shareholder in the money that has gone in for our high performance budget yet we do not have any input into it. We would just like a little bit more clarity in order that we could sit down at a table and all discuss the high performance budget. I accept there is a huge divide-up and a lot of people need to get a few quid. Eventers are on the Government's top list of medal prospects for Paris. There is boxing and sailing and ourselves among the top levels that are recommended. We had a fourth place in the European championships and we are hoping to work on that to get into a medal slot in the Olympics. That is where we need a little bit of input. We need to see that drive from HSI towards Sport Ireland to say that here is a sport that is on the list as a medal prospect for Paris.