I am aware of the survey that the Deputy carried out. Everybody accepts that there is a shortage of money for many aspects of primary school education. I certainly would like to see more money being made available, and the Minister and I are striving at all times to make more money available.
However, within the constraints that have been placed upon us in the last number of years, we have progressed significantly the development of physical culture within the primary school system. We are quite satisfied that, mainly due to the very good response of primary teachers, significant progress is being made, not just with the development of physical education in primary schools but also in the development of sport in primary schools. I accept that the availability of equipment has not always been as we would have hoped and it is for that reason that we provided an additional £80,000 this year for grants for every primary school in the country with one, two or three primary school teachers so that they could avail of the equipment that is necessary for both physical education and sports.
Finally, we are progressing even further the development of in-service training courses, and the Minister is addressing this whole question in the policy paper which she is at present preparing. Certainly we want to see a much greater role for physical education in the primary school curriculum and the objective is to progress in that direction.