Ms Gina McIntyre:

We have been doing a lot of work with those hard-to-reach groups. The purpose of the scoping study Mr. Beattie referred to earlier was to see what the challenges and obstacles are and to examine how we can help. We have projects that involve a lot of ex-combatants and ex-prisoners. They work together from all sides and do a lot of good work trying to encourage people, especially young people, not to get involved by letting them know what the impact was on their lives, families and generations to come when they got involved. They do a lot of very good work and we will do more, as Mr. Huddleston said. We are pushing this in every application and, particularly, in smaller grants for single identity work. Those calls have not been rolled out yet. We will be pushing ways to get those people to get involved with us. Whether it happens this year or next year, there will be an opportunity. It will take time. We will be looking at that.

We work closely with the shared island unit and all the major funders. We co-ordinate with one another on who is getting applications from who and direct people to go to different funders, depending on the nature of their work. We work closely and I hope we will be collaborating more - we met them yesterday - on practical projects in the coming year or two.

The current programme on shared education has been a real success for us. In formal education settings, 312,000 pupil school years were put through the current programme. It basically involves children sharing classes, teachers training together and parents getting to know one another. It has been successful. For parents who do not want to send their children to integrated schools, in particular, this is the first step. Believe me, it is not easy for some parents to get involved in the shared education programme. They say their children go to a particular school and they do not want them to mix, but it has been successful. We have seen instances of families coming together who are now friends. They go to each other's parties and socialise together. Those are the spin-offs from shared education. We want to keep that going so it is rolling out. Mr. Huddleston is dealing with the applications for the shared education programme in both formal and informal or youth settings at the moment. In the PEACE IV programme we only focused on school settings or formal education and there was a big gap in shared education in the youth sector. Mr. Huddleston is dealing with that at the moment.

We have a huge investment in transport links under investment area 5.6, in increasing the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise train to an hourly service and in reducing the time it takes. That is with a view to the electrification of the whole railway down the east coast. We do not have any plans on the west coast at the moment, unfortunately.