Ms Clare Duffy:

In our submission to the committee, we refer to funding that is provided for under the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is funding that has gone to the community and voluntary pillar of social partnership and it funds people such as me and other people around this table to try to help with policy development. That scheme of funding is not a huge pot of money but it was due to be reviewed over recent years. Thanks be to God it was not reviewed, but this year the Department said it definitely would be. However, we have learned probably within the past week or two that the Department will delay that review or that evaluation, so perhaps we need not worry about that as much as we were worrying about it when we were drafting our submission.