Dr. Fergal Lynch:

That is an extremely important question and one on which we have been working quite intensively. As to the Deputy's question on better or clearer resource allocation, the answer to that now is "Yes". Under our targeted youth funding scheme, which involves amalgamating four existing schemes, we are pulling them all together into a single scheme. We have introduced what is called an area profile, needs assessment and service requirement tool, which is a bit of a mouthful. In layperson's language this means that the educational and training boards, ETBs, carry out an assessment of need in their area. They identify where services are falling short, where services are reasonably well provided and where the actual needs are. In the future, from next year onwards, each ETB will be asked to draw up the service level requirement for its area based on this tool and organisations will then be entitled to apply for funding on the basis of this model. We did not have this model in place before.