Mr. Aidan Dunning:

We will not absolve ourselves of responsibility once we have put in the money. We are anxious, and I hope that came through in my opening statement, to get value for money for the expenditure we deliver from our Vote. We have set up a process and I have been talking to my colleague in the Department of Education and Skills whereby with their good offices, and they have resources to do this, we can evaluate the way the scheme is operating on the ground. It is crucial, in this current climate in particular, that every cent we spend is applied as optimally as possible, and that is certainly what we were about. In fairness, the Department of Education and Skills has been very co-operative, as has HEAnet, in rolling out this scheme. I have no doubt of their commitment to it and to getting the right outputs, outcomes and impacts from it but the Deputy can be assured that we will continue to liaise closely with them on it.