Mr. Robert Watt:

The Minister has set out the allocations and, as I noted in my contribution, the variance against profile has been very modest, at €98 million or 0.2% for 2012. We are satisfied that budgeting has been very effective in overall terms. In the absence of that effective budgeting we would not have been in a position to manage the troika programme or to leave it last year. We are aware that there are a number of areas in which we need to improve our budgeting. It is set out in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report that the variances in the past several years have been consistent and of a scale with which we are not happy. We agree that we need to improve our budgeting in regard to the HSE.