Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I share the Deputy's concern about the delay in having the accounts both submitted to and processed by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We need to work with the sector to help it to achieve that. I do not believe that if we withheld money from this sector, that would be effective because the students in schools have an entitlement to education and we should not be limiting the funding for those schools nor indeed limiting the funding for further education and training.