Dr. Alan Barrett:

Let me take a stab at it. In terms of why it was not in the report and why we did not get into that level of detail - I will come back to the other point - the original contract for this was agreed in April of last year. The timeline was for the delivery of a report in June. As all of our ESRI colleagues had a multitude of other things on, the amount of time that was actually given over to it meant that we had to be very focused.

To look at the broader question of allocations, perhaps the first point to be made is that the percentages mentioned by the Deputy in the context of GNI are high relative to international standards. We are spending a good amount on public infrastructure at the moment. The question she is driving at relates to whether more should be spent.