Mr. Martin O'Sullivan:

I wish to make a point in respect of an earlier comment on how we can assist the organisations we fund. The director made reference to templates and so on. When the Companies Act 2014 was introduced - and with the implementation of the Charities Act - the Arts Council looked very seriously at how we could support organisations. The organisations we fund are relatively small. It is a number of individuals trying to cover many different areas. We set out, literally, memorandum and articles of association so that companies limited by guarantee and the newly formed and designated activity companies could, as organisations, actually take the template and implement it. I use this as an example of how the Arts Council could assist organisations in getting through some of that detail in respect of the various issues.