Mr. Alan Nuzum:

We were at a high level of funding because by 2008 our funding was €26 million but that was a combination of our core training network programme and a programme we took on for a two-year period of EU funding under the Excel programme. The funding reduced after that. Our funding is now approximately €14.5 million. We are definitely doing more with less from the point of view that in those three years we have improved our key outputs in terms of the number of people we support and the number of training days we deliver by more than 10% each year. We are managing to extract, through our network’s purchasing power more than anything else, significant economies of scale as we grow. I could probably take a guess at every year’s funding, having been with Skillnets for ten years. It was €5 million to €6 million up to approximately 2005 or 2006 and then rapidly increased with the EU funding and has now levelled off in recent years.