Mr. Ronan Corrigan:

Yes. In particular, there were statements made that Showjumping Ireland collects a levy on behalf of Horse Sport Ireland for international affairs and it was not paying the moneys collected by it to be given to international affairs. The correction is that since 2010, I believe, Showjumping Ireland has given round-figure amounts towards international participation. It has not collected a levy since the times of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland, EFI. Moneys are collected into SJI for the administration of its sport and the support of its activities. From that, its management, finance committees and board make a decision as to the level of support provided to international affairs. That was done for a three-year period with an agreement in place where books were opened and accounts and plans prepared, and that worked very well. At the end of that three-year agreement, no follow-on agreement was put in place. It was very ad hoc and very much a case of "How much can you give?". In the last number of years, SJI sought to regularise that again and to have a situation where plans would be put forward and could be costed properly. There was a degree of resistance to that. We just could not get agreement that they would be submitted for Showjumping Ireland. As I think some of the others here will confirm, we intended to increase the amount of funding to international participation but it was conditional on submissions being made, so we could have a proper budget and structure to return to the members and justify any increase in funding.