Mr. Robert Fagan:

We cannot. To give the background, most of the 18 or 20 venues that are part of our association are family-run businesses spread throughout the 32 counties and they are very rural and have a rural basis. Maybe there is a perception that we are commercial and, as a result, we are not able to tap into the likes of the Sport Ireland funding for capital investment and so on, so we are at a huge disadvantage there. We are 30 years in the making. The Deputy mentioned Cavan, it is 40 years in the case of Millstreet and there are many other venues. I have a colleague present representing Killossery. They are all family-run and have been built up over the years, but it is because they have a passion for the sport and for the industry. These venues are a community for people who compete in pony clubs, dressage, eventing or hunting. We are multi-disciplined and we create that facility for those people to use. If we were to compare facilities with the likes of Sweden, Belgium or Holland, which rank high in the equestrian Olympic disciplines and so on, they get massive support and they get it from their communities, county councils and governments.