Mr. Graham Doyle:

I would not necessarily have been there anyway. There is an assistant secretary general who heads up the aviation side of our operation and there is a principal officer who heads the airports division of the Department. I would not necessarily have been there anyway. That said, I have said to the Minister that I will absent myself from consideration of policy, particularly in relation to Waterford Airport, but regional airports more generally. Yes, I am the Accounting Officer and I have to account to this committee for the expenditure, but I personally do not think it would be appropriate for me to do that.