Mr. Damien Moloney:

We do not have a formal written service level agreement but we have processes that are formal and the commission reports to us in writing on a monthly basis to draw down the grants. I sign off each month on a regular statement from the commission about what it has done and what it needs to do for the coming month in terms of the drawdown for the grant. I get to see closely what it is doing and when there are new programmes involving finance or expenditure it meets with us. That is what I meant about the informal element; we have a lot of informal meetings because the commission has a lot of plans but there are formal structures in place. I do what I refer to as "walk the land" where I visit Departments or outlets – we have secondees in Departments as well – and I do that with the LRC. The visits are a form out outreach but we have formalised that more so it is not just a case of dropping in.