Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I have an observation on the clip that is included in the email. A number of years ago, the Department of public expenditure directed that any body in receipt of funding from multiple sources would have to disclose the range of public sources of its funding. The idea behind this was that this would at least help people to understand what the funding was for in cases where there were multiple sources of funding. Also, all public bodies that are providing funding would understand that there are other sources and would be able to query that. Certainly, if we look at many of the NGOs, charitable bodies, etc., that are providing services, they will have a table like this that will list the various tranches of funding they are receiving.