Mr. John O'Sullivan:

I am conscious that I did not answer one of the Deputy's earlier questions about our participation in the impact analysis which the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will be conducting. We will certainly be supplying information, data and statistics to the Department and provide any assistance that is required but we would have to acknowledge that the Department has a policy role while ours is very much a specific statutory role. We will, of course, provide any information and that would always be the case. We would abstract information from our database, analyse it and provide the figures to the Department.