Mr. Robert Watt:

Because it was very clear what we were trying to achieve. It was a public interest measure to give a very clear intent to enhance research funding in line with what the Government have committed and what the Government has decided in Government decisions. We said that the statutory body, as the Deputy referenced, which was set up in the 1960s and which managed this on behalf of the State, would run the competitions. Subsequent events show that to be the case because the Government has allocated additional funding to the very same body and I understand they are in the process now of organising those competitions on the line that was envisaged, so I do not accept the report, no.