Having regard to the fact that grants and scholarships are paid by many sources I should like to ask the Minister to consider paying them from one source. Will the Minister accept that such a procedure will result in a saving? In my view it will eliminate bureaucracy and will result in all the money going directly to education. I should like to ask the Minister a question in regard to the ERASMUS scheme of scholarships announced by the European Council of Ministers and adopted by them at their meeting on 14 May. A figure of £65.5 million is involved but there seems to be no information as to how this money will be channelled through and how this grant will be made available to students. There is basically a lack of information of any kind. Will the Minister ensure that this vital information becomes available as a matter of urgency?

I know the Progressive Democrats have a thing about administration——

About inefficient administration.

With regard to the Deputy's desire that all grants should be subject to and issue from one admissions office, that may well be stage 2 of the deliberations of the task force. We are awaiting the result of their deliberations of stage I which was the applications system. It may well follow, taking cognisance of what they say, that the Deputy's idea could then be looked at. The Deputy's second point related to ERASMUS; I was very pleased to be present at the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Brussels at which ERASMUS was decided upon and finally approved. I cannot say it was because I was there — perhaps it was — but it was a follow-on to work done by previous Ministers and it was particularly fruitful for me to be present. The amount of £65.5 million will be spread over three years to members of countries in the EC. It will allow for the transfer of a young person, man or woman, between a third level institution in Ireland and the other countries or vice versa. It will not be an extension to a course; he or she will go for a period of their course and will receive credits from the third level institution to which he or she goes. It will have enormous cultural, social and educational advantages for this country bearing in mind that we have the largest number of young people of student age. A European committee and an Irish committee will be set up to deal with the co-ordination of the scheme and, in particular, to deal swiftly with the applications for the coming academic year because a certain proportion of that money will be devoted to such applications. The committees will be addressing themselves urgently to their task and the institutions concerned will receive notification in respect of the applications. The scheme was announced only recently and will require to be worked out. However, it is one of the good news stories from the Department of Education.

Deputy Quill rose.