Mr. William Beausang:

We have an overarching oversight agreement that sets the framework for how we work with SOLAS. This informs the delivery agreement every year, which reflects the targets and objectives in its business plan. On the question the Deputy is posing, since 2022, SOLAS has put in place frameworks called strategic performance agreements with each ETB. When consolidated, these give us a set of metrics, setting out what the ETB system is committed to deliver on the basis of the very significant funding it receives. That relates to all the different dimensions of SOLAS's activities. It is activity-based and Ministers, the Government, parliamentarians and TDs are always interested in activity.

However, we also need to strengthen, in line with what the Comptroller and Auditor General has recommended, our understanding of outcomes from that spending, not just our understanding regarding the people who have gone through the system.