Ms Gina McIntyre:

It is of course on our radar. I will just finish on the North-South bodies. If the Senator really wants project examples of what she referred to, she should speak to the other North-South bodies because there are governance issues arising in relation to boards and projects that are not being delivered within some of the North-South bodies because they do not have the revenue to do it. There are repairs not happening on some very important areas. Ours is resource-specific at the minute and all the other bodies will have very specific projects they can probably tell the Senator have not been able to be delivered because of lack of decision.

On the paramilitary influences, it is probably less obvious on the large projects because most of the organisations coming forward there are well established. They are statutory agencies in some regard or they are youth groups that are very well established, so they are not the issue. We know there will be some of the council work, but the councils know who they are delivering the money to and what is required in the local area. It is all about knowing where the line is between the hard-to-reach group and the money, as the Senator says, becoming bad. That is a challenge for us now, particularly with the small grants. We will be looking at that. It accounts for a lot of the work Mr. Beattie and his team, working with Pobal, do. Looking to see how we can make this more administratively simple is a very difficult, complex area. It is about putting in place safeguards for public funds, exactly as the Senator said. We are alive to that issue.