H.E. Dr. Sinéad Walsh:

We can say that the Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia have definitely invested their own resources. What happened in August was that budget revisions took place in both countries. This is very tricky but they basically tried to cut any remotely optional expenditure from other budget lines and redirect the money involved to the fight against Ebola. We know that they did not have a huge amount of such optional expenditure with which to play but they definitely made reallocations that made a difference. The salaries of the additional health workers that were required, etc., were covered by government expenditure. That is still happening. Again, however, these are countries whose entire annual budgets are between €500 million and €700 million. They can, therefore, only stretch their resources so far. They made very significant adjustments during the summer in order to try to free up funds in respect of Ebola.