Ms Rosemarie Tobin:

I expect Ms Hayes will have some things to say on this as well but I will begin in terms of our Department and our procedures. The Deputy will be aware the Department does not fund NGOs directly. The local authorities have the relationship and we fund the local authorities. However, there is an extensive oversight framework in place to monitor that funding. We are responsible, as the first grantors of that section 10 funding. We undertook a review of our own funding model, our own oversight procedures, and we also had the C and AG come in. That office reviewed our procedures and made three recommendations. We have enhanced our oversight procedures with the local authorities to take into account what we found in our own review and in the C and AG report.