Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two questions on this. On the additional funding we will provide before the end of the year, we were due to split it 50-50 and yet we are now moving towards providing 80% of the funding in 2015 and 20% in January 2016. What consequences does that have for next year? The higher education institutes are stating that they are having difficulty with cashflow and that there are cashflow pressures within the institutes. I imagine those pressures are not going to just disappear overnight. What impact does it have if we are giving them more money this year which was earmarked for next year? What will be the knock-on consequences for next year?

In respect of the figure of €17 million to meet demographic trends which we did not account for, how did we not account for demographic trends?