Mr. Donagh Morgan:

We have a unit in the Department called the withdrawals unit, but because of cutbacks we have not be able to resource it. We continue to try to pick away at it. In the sports capital programme there is a sunset clause, so that we could in theory pull back any moneys that are not spent within 18 months, but there are various reasons the money does not get drawn down. Our policy is to try to help clubs and not to penalise them. We do not press them too hard. Up to a couple of years ago, we were pressing very hard to have the older grants cleared because they were not going to go ahead. People may be under the illusion that if the grants are not drawn down the money will become available to us. That is not the case. It is like an overdraft facility. If everything that we owed was called it we would have to pay it, and we would not have the funding to do that.