Mr. Tony Murphy:

At the moment, there is a risk it might get worse. This is the whole cohesion thing. That is a place-based policy area. Brussels and the Committee of Regions are extremely worried that this centralisation of all the funding will have an even bigger impact on the regional input because the idea is that the region knows best and what its needs are. The risk is that if it goes centrally, it is somebody else making the decisions. There is a bit of a kick-back. I see strong kick-back from some member states that want to maintain this regional involvement. That will have a knock-on effect for things like LEADER. If Cohesion Funds are going central, that will have an adverse impact on the LEADER ones as well.