Mr. Peter Davitt:

I would like to respond to that point first and foremost because it is very valid. In respect of the FET provision, some of our primary providers are VECs and FÁS. The criticism in the report is not of the providers but of the disjointed nature of the provision. There are VECs on one side and FÁS on the other side. The new strategy in terms of the establishment of FET and SOLAS should give a more streamlined approach. It may have come across wrongly in the document. The criticism was not of the providers but of the framework by which FET provision could be made more streamlined and focused. I agree totally with Deputy Conaghan. Our primary providers throughout the country are VECs and FÁS external training. Without them we would not be able to engage the long-term unemployed in the type of courses that we have offered to date.