Dr. Pauric Travers:

It remains to be seen. I have yet to take up the role. The board has not met. I am familiar with the overall budget. The centre gets a grant-in-aid from the Department, which, up to now, has come via the HEA, but will come directly in future. It also gets supplementary funding for particular projects. In other words, if there is a project that needs to be done, then the centre negotiates for additional funding to do that work. Then it generates its own income, both from independent research students and from testing. Assessment and testing for schools generates some income, which is then ploughed back into the work of the centre. I think the budget is roughly €2.5 million a year. That is the figure. It has had some small increase in staff recently, but I do not yet have a take on whether the resource allocation and staffing is sufficient to do the work required. It has certainly been operating very efficiently within the cloth it has been given and, no doubt, like many organisations, if it had enhanced resources with an expectation of enhanced results, I am sure we would deliver them.