Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We have been seeking to improve governance in the past few years. There has been a hugely increased emphasis on governance. In a way, we have sought to detail the nature of governance relationships, be it through institutions and the HEA or between the HEA and the Department, in order that there will be increased clarity. The committee will see in our performance delivery agreement with the HEA that there is clarity on what it plans to do and what the Department's expectations are in terms of outputs and outcomes. It is a much improved way of doing business with agencies. We are doing this with all of the national agencies and it can work very effectively in order that we will all know what our plans are for a given year. We do a lot more than governance; there is a lot more than governance being called for in the actions in the performance delivery agreement, or in the Department's strategy for the action plan. The focus, obviously, has to be on governance and accountability.