Will the Minister say if any individual vocational education committees or schools have communicated with her Department the fact that they are in deficit or likely to run into deficit because of the allocation not being confirmed?

I do not have such detailed information to hand but I will sent it to the Deputy for his information.

Arising from the Minister's commitment, which I welcome, is she in a position to say that where such circumstances arise the Department will be allocating the necessary finance to complete their programmes?

Sin ceist eile.

The officials dealing with this matter have been in very close contact with the various VECs around the country especially over the last number of months, and I am satisfied that any difficulties have been satisfactorily resolved. I will supply details to the Deputy at a later date.