Mr. Michael Bowe:

I will take the first two queries and then hand over to Mr. O'Neill, who will deal with the figures. The local development companies could easily have risen to the challenge at the time with the numbers we did in 2012 with an extra 50,000. There is evidence of that and other programmes, such as the Tús programme which we ramped up from the beginning when given responsibility for it.

As regards current resources, they are reasonably adequate. Sufficient is made available by the Department to run the the LES and Tús services and we have other programmes and budgets to complement that. One would always look for more money but we currently have adequate funding.

Mr. O'Neill will give more detail on the figures. Deputy O'Dea may revert to me if I have not adequately answered his questions.