Professor Frank Monahan:

It is not. The Department would be aware of it. Normally, funding for third level comes from schemes such as the scheme for the promotion of research at third level institutions, and when there is a call through that scheme we can submit our plan. UCD has to come in behind that, however, and say the farm is what we should submit. We need to go through that route when there is a specific call for funding for a particular project, and that is where we would put in our plan.