Mr. Francis O'Donnell:

We are looking at that and at the moment we have a memo ready to go from our parent Department and the Department of housing to the Government on this programme and the capital envelope for it. We do not know yet what that will be.

On the numbers, of course IFI needs to build capacity and expertise. It will take time to get projects started and probably in four years' time there will be a significant pipeline of projects that are at various stages. Yes, ideally, it would be good if we could get more people to do it, but as an agency, we have to prove we are capable of doing it, that we will progress a significant number of mitigations, easements or whatever. We should start with that. There is a risk to all these things. There is no guarantee of funding into the future. I mentioned a 50 year programme. We are probably looking at five or six years out now. We are taking on a barrier mitigation lead. We are interviewing for that position and that individual will take on the team in the next two or three years. When you are not sure where the money will come from, you have to be careful about scaling up. I know it is critical that we do, but there is a risk for the agency if we scale up that we will turn around in the morning - we are in an election year as well - and find that people hold money tightly.