Mr. Ronan Corrigan:

The Deputy asked what we want the Minister to do. We want him to get us talking and listening properly. That is what we really want. It is not about money. There is a great deal of money in the industry and much of it will flow into it if we are all joined up. That is the reality. Deputy Ring asked a question about our Olympic teams. We look at the Olympic teams of other nations and at the Irish soccer team and the corporate sponsorship they have. They are supported by corporates. Our international showjumping squads get a pittance because it is not joined up from the start to the finish. The people who can join it up are sitting before the committee, as are their fellow affiliates. I would ask the Minister to sit down and have an open meeting where everything is up for discussion and we could be walking out of the door with a lovely clean sheet of paper and thinking we can start again. Lieutenant Colonel Freyne mentioned it. I was on the first board. Mr. Joe Walsh used to say, every time he met us, "A rising tide lifts all boats." He was very good at getting us all to co-operate with each other. I agree with Lieutenant Colonel Freyne that there were too many people on that board and Showjumping Ireland was part of that problem because we had four representatives on the board. We would have been quite happy and could have managed quite well if we had two representatives on the board. If every organisation lost a couple of members, we would have had a board of 12 or 14 people that would have done a job. As is the case at the committee, everybody gets in a room, learns about each other's problems and concerns and comes up with solutions. The executive is then told to make it happen. That is what I would like.