Mr. Maurice Buckley:

The Central Bank building, for example, was in serious contention. It is an old building, however, and there were a lot of structural and technical issues and it was considered not to be a good choice. It is not that one could say in advance that there is only one option, but, as the Deputy rightly pointed out, there were not many options available at the time. Five or ten years earlier in the middle of the downturn, there would have been options aplenty to review and evaluate. At that time, there were three reasonable and credible options, but one clearly emerged as the preference among them.