Mr. John Tierney:

As I went through this in significant detail last night, I will not repeat all of that. There are two aspects to the organisation, in that there is the operational piece, the revenue piece of the organisation in terms of the operation of the organisation. In that regard, we will keep the expenditure on consultants - in the understood description of consultants in terms of needing reports or anything like that - to the absolute minimum.

Because of the scale of some of the projects that one will be doing, and one would not necessarily carry that on an ongoing basis, one will still need engineering expertise brought in to do a lot of work on the capital programme. That is separate - €240 million from the Government and €70 million - and also utilising the capital office engineering staff in the local authorities.