Ms Josephine Feehily:

I do not know the corporation tax yield. We do not have it for that narrow group, but we will get whatever we can and send it to the Deputy.

The position in relation to the losses is that very early on in the current difficulties it became very obvious to us that there was likely to be huge losses and that they would impact on corporation tax receipts. I approached the Department of Finance at the time to bring its attention to this.