Mr. Robert Watt:

The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, brought the property plan in July. It has been approved and it has a variety of different recommendations which the OPW will implement with Departments. In effect, it continues the process of us reducing our footprint in the context of where we can dispose of properties and where we can get out of leases. As the market recovers, we will probably do more of that. The Minister of State has reduced the costs quite considerably in terms of how much we spend on leases and we need to go further. Our demands are different. As the system downsizes and we consolidate and rationalise, our footprint will be smaller and, therefore, we will have more surplus properties. That plan has been approved and I think we published it. I can check but if it has been approved, I am sure it has been published by the OPW. It sets out a variety of steps and recommendations about the size of offices, different standards and approaches to leasing and so on. We will continue in that vein to save money and to reduce costs in the OPW Vote.