Mr. Jerry Murphy:

I will make two points about the targeting there. First, there is a nationally set number of groupings that the programme is to target but each local area, through the local community development committee, LCDC, is also given authority to add a target group locally if it is appropriate. That was open as a local opportunity. Although I might be wrong on this, I suggest that probably the reason they felt they did not need to add fishermen and farmers was that the programme now includes a target for low-income families. There was much discussion about farmers and fishermen. The intention always had been that the farmers and fishermen who had been targeted in previous programmes were to be those on low income. The idea was that targeting of low-income families should allow any low-income farmer or fisherman, in west Cork or any other area, to be a perfectly valid recipient of supports through the programmes. There certainly should be no reason that such work cannot continue with those groups in SICAP.