Ms Mary Higgins:

I inherited three staff from the Education Finance Board. One left in June, another left in July and one remained with us until last year. Setting up an organisation is not that easy. There is work that needs to be done. It takes time to establish policies, procedures and all of those things. Most of the time spent during 2013 was on staff recruitment and consulting and designing the application procedures and the scope of what it is we would be doing. Then we began very early in January 2014.