the GAA made decision on the issue there was no case to hear. The response of the DRA panel are summarised below: (Paragraph 1): “Their status as members has never been in question; the contribution of their witnesses alone to the Association over many years, both as players and administrators, is most impressive; and, quite properly, their standing to bring these arbitration proceedings has not been challenged. As such, suggestions that have been made publicly (although not by those involved in this arbitration) to the effect that the Claimants are in some way ‘external’ to the Association, are both incorrect and unfair”. Paragraph 44: “It would seem sensible, both in the context of Rule 11 and any enhanced expenses scheme such as that under consideration here, to fix not only rates of expenses but types of expenses allowable, because while certain heads of expenditure might happily fall within any man's view of ‘expenses’ others might extend into what might justifiably be ‘reward’. “ Paragraph 54: “Central Council argue that if the enhanced meal or mileage rate exceeded what was properly treated as an expense, the Revenue Commissioners would be entitled to tax it and no sums were payable that fell into that bracket: accordingly there is a safeguard against breaches of Rule 11.” Paragraph 54: “That does not, in our opinion, answer the question why a (well-off) club should remain prohibited from paying its members Civil Service mileage rates (since, by Central Council's definition, those rates constitute expenses and not reward), while inter-county players would be free to collect them”. Paragraph 61: “The Schemes may be a very good idea, and they may be a very bad one”. Paragraph 63: “Although unsuccessful in the result, it is clear from the two sets of arbitration proceedings that the Claimants cannot be said to have failed in their endeavours”. Changes announced In March 2008 Director General Pauric Duffy announced that the scheme would change from grants scheme to an eligible expenses scheme, this was a significant victory for Of One Belief as it dealt with the issue of County players receiving grants for playing Gaelic Games. The three GAA Presidential candidates also publicly expressed their concerns about the grants scheme in the lead up to the 2009 Congress. At the 2008 GAA congress Conway, McAnallan and Seamus McCloy all put forward a strong argument against the grant scheme proposals however were their