Mr. Mark Griffin:

I can only speak for the projects for which my own Department was responsible and I will let Mr. Pat Colgan deal with the broader issue. Deficiencies were identified in respect of the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, funding programmes. I do not know whether this was exclusive to INTERREG or more broadly but certain aspects of those funding programmes could have benefited from a different type of management approach. I believe Mr. Colgan has set out some of this in the briefing he has provided to the committee. I mentioned earlier that in so far as the INTERREG programmes are concerned, the European Commission has changed the approach for the projects that are funded under the INTERREG IV programme.