Mr. Pat Burke:

Essentially, this would relate to instances where a significant curricular change is planned. Perhaps it could be in respect of a subject at second level such as, for example, fundamental change to the history syllabus. The way we would manage the bedding down of this would be to take some of the top history teachers from the system and make them available as a resource to schools. The top end of the allowance would tend to be people in charge of that overall service in respect of history, geography and so on. There is then a scaled allowance. The range here is from €16,000 to €10,000.