Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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If Mr. Corrigan knows one, I am available and I know the person who wants it.

I will finish on this. This is an important industry. I was the Minister for sport. We had the passport problem, the breeding problem and the rows. I thought we had gone past that. Regarding high performance, I am surprised at two things, even though I was Minister for sport. I did not realise that the witnesses could not apply under the sports capital. I know high performance is there and it is supposed to be equally distributed. Some organisations get a massive amount of high performance money and they are still high performance. They are not doing much good in the past 20 years. Some people are not living in Ireland but use the nationality and country, and get good high performance money. They do not perform when they go to the Olympics but that is not about performance. I would like to see a bit more funding going into the sport. The first thing that has to be done, as Mr. Corrigan said, is people have to be brought together. Somebody has to take the hammer and somebody has to take control. They have to listen to the industry and the industry has to respond. That is all I have to say.