Mr. Frank Ryan:

Our current responsibility is the co-ordination of the funding that passes through Enterprise Ireland to the county and city enterprise boards until such time as the Government and their parent Department decide to change this through legislation and so forth. We are an arm of the Government, so we will be asked by our parent Department to execute a range of interfaces with the county and city enterprise boards, but until these are defined to us, we really cannot envisage what we will be asked to do. However, from what we are aware so far, it is envisaged that we will have a much closer working relationship with the county enterprise boards going forward.