I refer to adult education which provides a second chance to people. The White Paper on Adult Education, Learning for Life, is the basis of Government policy. There has been a significant increase in investment in adult literacy to a total of €2.9 million to maintain expansion of the scale, scope and quality of provision, including the use of television to reach people in their homes. In addition, 6,000 part-time places were provided under the back-to-education initiative, beginning this year at a cost of €6.31 million with a full year cost of more than €17 million. This represents the largest increase ever provided in further education and is designed to promote increased flexibility and responsiveness of the system for those with less than upper second level education.