As I explained to the European Committee on Tuesday 4 April, I am concerned about the position of a number of voluntary organisations sponsoring European Social Fund projects who were facing a gap in funding between the closure of previous structural fund programmes and the introduction of new ones. I have therefore put in place a guarantee in relation to the funding gap for these organisations to enable them to plan effectively for the new programme and I have asked officials to bring forward as a matter of urgency recommendations as to how such a scheme should work.