Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

To answer the Deputy's first question, no, it will not be possible to provide that next week. We will read the transcript. A number of Deputies have looked for specific pieces of information. We will go and engage with the nine CHOs and see what can be provided as quickly as possible. We will not seek to delay the process. If necessary, we will give the Deputy something interim within a short period.

In terms of coming here today, we came with the financial information that we have. Initially, I think I got a couple of days' notice of this meeting, which became a week and a bit. It would not have been practical to produce that in a general way. Now at least we have a better sense that there are different flavours of what people are asking for. One of the Deputies wanted to know who authorised all of the spend, which is a slightly different, totally reasonable question. We will take this transcript, put it together as best we can, and then we will reply. It is not that we do not have a lot of information.

Have previous junior Ministers asked the question? I have no doubt that they have and we will have provided the best information we had at the time. My main point is that it does not readily exist in a format such that one simply runs a report, which is how we all would agree it should exist. We will have provided a variety of information to Ministers over the years in terms of either new posts or total posts in these various sub-specialty areas. Even some of the areas the Deputy mentioned herself, we will just have to dig out and see. The homeless piece is a further sub-specialisation in terms of the overall answer. We will provide what can be provided. We have a lot of information. There is a lot of audit and accountability. There are budgets. We would not want people to think there are not budgets to manage the service, although there might not be available data.