Mr. David O'Callaghan:

This may answer a point that Deputy Byrne raised earlier about whether we are trying to prolong this thing ad infinitum. There was a presentation of the board last February. Based on certain assumptions that we would get the €14 million that is outstanding from the religious congregations - we will assume we will get the total figure of €110 million - we are making grants to survivors on the current average and will be closing this scheme by 31 December 2019. Before that, we will probably have a closing date of 31 December 2018 for new applications. The final grants will be paid around mid-2019. The end is in sight here. We are not trying to prolong this thing ad infinitum. We have a limited fund and current forecasts have final grants being paid in mid-2019 and staff being laid off thereafter.