The allocation for 2003 of €373 million should enable us to maintain the 0.41% commitment. This objective has been achieved in the context of current difficult financial circumstances. There is a temptation, as has happened in other countries, to reduce assistance to external aid when circumstances at home become more difficult. We have all heard the debates about cuts in our school programmes. We can list them in every Department, as they all took major hits. However, we have not made cuts here, rightly so.