Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

It is not a staffing numbers issue. We have given additional staff that SUSI requested and there is an outsourcing arrangement in place as well. The issue around the payments is about the students giving their bank details. One of the challenges we have had in the whole process, is that the process has moved on from being a parents-led process to being a student-led process. As communications have gone back to students, the students themselves may not have communicated with us. That is one of the difficulties. I am in no sense trying to blame students. Students have been engaging on this. The City of Dublin VEC is trying to get the details on the bank accounts to pay the 2,164 students. I cannot give a guarantee. All I can say is that when CDVEC gets the applications it will pay them as soon as possible.