Mr. Jim Breslin:

Anything that happens within the health service must ultimately be accounted for by the Department and the Minister. I am accounting for it today as Accounting Officer. However, I must also reflect the fact that there is a statutory responsibility on the body that we created to construct the hospital. It is in that budget that the slippage of €450 million has taken place. By virtue of me being Accounting Officer and saying "I take responsibility", I do not absolve the statutory body we have put in place of responsibility either.