Mr. Denis Duggan:

High performance is funded in two ways. We receive a levy that is collected by Showjumping Ireland and contributions from Eventing Ireland and Dressage Ireland. We receive contributions from them which are of various different amounts across the organisations. That is matched on a two for one basis by Sport Ireland. For every euro Showjumping Ireland provides for high-performance sport, we have an additional two euro from Sport Ireland. There is a different amount of money from Showjumping Ireland, which collects it as a levy from prize money from all the shows it runs domestically. Eventing Ireland collects it as part of its general membership, is my understanding. The position with Dressage Ireland is similar. Because showjumping is the bigger of the three sports domestically, its contribution is larger. Eventing is not too far behind. Dressage is a more niche sport and its contribution is smaller. Each of those contributions are matched two for one by Sport Ireland. Ultimately, that gives us the pot of money to fund high-performance costs across the disciplines.

Para-equestrian is separate We have a direct grant from Sport Ireland for that which amounts to approximately €70,000 that we put into supporting the high-performance programme in para equestrian, particularly para-dressage. It is a contribution of between €5,000 and €10,000. It has varied over the past number of years but it is in and around that amount from para equestrian.