Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

At the start the Deputy mentioned nobody being fired and that he would fire the CFO team. I serve at the pleasure of the director general and it is a matter for him if he wants me to do this or not. However, the analogy is not straightforward. I am not trying to drag other Departments into it but in percentage terms the HSE, while ours is always the biggest because we have practically the biggest Vote, has not been No. 1 or No. 2, and in some cases not No. 3 or No. 4, in recent years in terms of its requirement for Supplementary Estimates. Each of those will have individual reasons. One has to go through what was in control, what was not and what is a performance issue versus what is not. They all have to be examined specifically. In recent years-----