Professor Alan Barrett:

It does. Link that to the sort of spending pressures that we have identified. Not to sound fiscal council-like, but if one wants to be cautious and to worry about the sustainability of the fiscal system, precisely to protect the sort of things that are working so well, those are moves that we cautioned against last year. I remember, and I was reminding him earlier, that Deputy Colm Brophy took great exception to a certain aspect. Having had a fight with the Irish Independentalready today, I did not have the energy to face Deputy Brophy as well.