The Minister of State referred to the sports capital programme. While the Irish Sports Council was established to examine the manner in which sports were organised and developed and to work with the national governing bodies, there was also a need to develop facilities throughout the country so people could train in facilities on a par with what was available in other parts of the world. The sports capital programme was introduced in 1998 and almost 5,500 individual projects have benefited from the scheme. Although the scheme is closed to new applications, €33 million is being spent this year. I would like to see the scheme reopened. The scheme was also closed last year when we were in government and I fought with the previous Minister. The scheme should be reopened then because there remains a need to channel money in a targeted way to sports facilities throughout the country to areas which may not have had facilities developed.