Mr. Oliver Egan:

No. It is within the budget envelope for this year. We have eased our own rules on that to try to help as much as we can. We will do as much as we can to ensure funding is spent in the right way this year within the ILP and within recognised progression. The key point is that funding for the rest of this year is not a challenge for us. We have an adequate fund for training. We will encourage the sponsors. We have met some of the groups already to say there is funding available. In the future, we will have to ensure we arrange the funding in a clearer way. The relationships with the educational bodies will have to be clear. We will all have to understand what we are doing. We are confident we can do that. The VEC systems of further training and development will need to have clear routes of progression. That is what Ms Donnelly and her colleagues have been working on. The Department of Social Protection is working on the activation agenda generally to ensure progression opportunities exist when people avail of the services of Pathways to Work.