Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

MOMENTUM, for example, was tendered for nationally by organisations which receive more money depending on their success in placing people in jobs. As part of its strategy, SOLAS has announced that it is looking at a performance framework for deciding on funding. I talked about what it is doing in the Higher Education Authority with the report to us on its approach to performance funding. In future, that will lead to higher education funding linking to outputs and outcomes. We are moving into the same area in further education and training. Over time, a precise approach will be developed in further education and training which focuses on that. We started with MOMENTUM but we will roll it out further. No decision has been made on the nature of the processes but the overall policy approach has been decided and we will look at it further.