Mr. Michael O'Mahony:

Therefore, I completely agree with the Deputy on his first point. His second point has already been addressed by Ms Fitzgerald on the notion of multi-annual funding. An organisation needs to know where it is going. It cannot manage these things on very short timeframes when it is not sure if it is going to get the funding for the following year. It cannot have a vision and develop into the future on that basis. It needs multi-annual funding and the ability for people to stay on. We have also mentioned governance, health and safety requirements and all the rest. No sooner are people trained and put through all those procedures than they are gone from the organisation. There is huge cost to that and it is a very inefficient churn.