Ms Anna Shakespeare:

We do not administer any SICAP funding. Our role is technical in terms of identifying the lots and using the deprivation index to calculate who gets what on the basis of the disadvantage. We also collect the very important data and statistics and manage the IRIS database. We do evaluation reports on what is working and what is not and what the information tells us. This is very much our role. It is more a technical role for the Department. We do not have an administration role in the funding for the Department of agriculture or the Department of Rural and Community Development.