Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I think SOLAS has the report. I have not seen it but I heard about initial outcomes from it. It is being, or is about to be, finalised. SOLAS has been working on developing its relationships with the ETBs in moving towards a more performance-based framework of funding. It is trialling some arrangements with some of the ETBs about what capacity there is to move in that direction. There have been movements in terms of funding mechanisms to try different streams and aspects of funding to move things around. Obviously, we are dealing with a lot of public sector employees so there are limits. However, there is some capacity that is used to tender for provision of services. Combined with that, a lot of work on outcomes is under way. A training programme participants annual survey by SOLAS is under way to look at completion rates and so on. We are also looking at arrangements to put databases in further education and training in place so there can be follow on regarding the effectiveness of provision in order that we can see not just from returns from people but also from looking at Revenue records on an impersonal basis and social welfare to see where people are six months or a year on from having a completed a course. We are doing the same thing in higher education and, indeed, with the same information in primary and second level education, we can get flows the whole way through so we can follow a typical learner's progress because, obviously, we would not share the individual information.