My Department is the designated managing authority for two of the operational programmes under the national development plan. These are the productive sector operational programme and the employment and human resources development operational programme. My Department is also responsible for a number of measures under the regional operational programmes. Expenditure under all the programmes is reported at Nuts II level, that is, BMW and southern and eastern Regions, to the respective monitoring committees and is not, therefore, available at county level. Spending for the full year 2002 will be reviewed at the spring monitoring committee meetings to be held in April 2003.
Questions Nos. 194 and 195 answered with Question No. 168.
Question No. 196 answered with Question No. 185.
Question No. 197 answered with Question No. 151.