Mr. Maurice Quinn:

The guidelines we were working under were that we were to maintain the service with the Air Corps if at all possible but that it had to be within a reasonable cost level. The €400,000 was based on our assessment of the costs that had arisen in the previous period. We worked out what the anticipated costs arising were going to be and we set that in consultation with the Minister at that time in 2010. On a monthly and yearly basis, we kept track of what the expenditure was against that. Obviously, all of the estimates are indicative. An interesting thing is that in the year in which it was exceeded, if one added the two years together, 2012 and 2013, it evened out. It it a question of movement in the costs as well.