Mr. Paddy Howard:

First of all, I will acknowledge that it is a shared concern. We obviously want to have that outreach too. With regard to my own area, whose focus is on research on innovation, we have set up structures so that oversight of that policy directly involves other Departments, stakeholders and agencies that have an interest in it. We have a dialogue with our colleagues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to keep that linkage going. As our colleagues from the Department of Education mentioned, in looking at its STEM policy, it has commenced engagement with us. We obviously partner in that area. Consultation and openness to views are very much part of our Department's approach.