The Corrib system or "western lakes" development project has been receiving funding under the tourism angling measure, TAM, of the Operation Programme for Tourism since early 1995 with the import objective of rehabilitating the Corrib, Mask and Cara Lakes as prime brown trout fisheries for domestic and tourism angling. The amount of funds allocated for each of the years of the project is: £1,035 million in 1995, £0,220 million in 1997 and £0,800 million in 1998. This brings the total investment in the western lakes project to over £2 million and is nearly 12 per cent of the total funding available over the whole period under the tourism angling measure. As with all such projects, contract staff are employed on a project specific basis.