Mr. Robert Watt:

As we set out, the intention was that money would be additional funding that would be made available to the Health Research Board as part of its Estimates. There would be €2 million, out of €949 million of research funding this year across the entire system. So we felt that it was fully consistent with Government policy in terms of the commitments here and the details were to be worked out. That when it got to the stage where the actual funding was to be made available to the Health Research Board, and it was not for Trinity College but for the Health Research Board to distribute that on a competitive basis and all of the institutions could compete for that, and then on that basis the Minister would seek approval and sanction spending as normal. I think that was made very clear to everybody involved that this was to move the process along.