Mr. John McKeon:

I hear the Deputies loud and clear. It is well known that our Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, are both very keenly interested in the CE space. That is no secret. They set up an operational forum with CE sponsors. There is a representative group of CE sponsors that the Minister and Minister of State meet three to four times a year. Many changes have been made to eligibility and duration on CE, specifically arising out of that operational forum and the interest of the Minister and Minister of State in it. The Deputies can take it that there is a strong interest in this issue. It is about the mechanism through which it is done that, I am afraid, is a legal mechanism. We fund the companies. They pay the wages.