Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

The membership of the VEC is set out in statute. The membership of the VEC itself was filled in a manner inconsistent with the statutory provisions. We did examine the statutory provisions for the membership of ETBs as we were amalgamating the VECs and we now have new arrangements in place for the membership of the Education and Training Boards which include an initial number of local authority members which then gets augmented by other people who are included, and we are going through that process at the moment with the elections.