Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The point of doing this chapter, which we have done for a number of years, has been to try to provide some transparency around the flows of funds because it was evident that there were many accounts providing moneys, as well as moneys flowing in and through the accounts. They went from the Vote to the local government fund to the local authorities. Motor tax was going into the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, out to the National Roads Authority, and then on to the local authorities. The point of the chapter has been to try to bring a coherent overview of it. It is still complicated and I cannot make it simpler. I hope what I did is useful to the committee.