Mr. Fred Barry:

We undertook hundreds and hundreds of projects during my time with the NRA. I could not give the Deputy a specific number.

We had annual funding and a multi-annual funding programme, so our target in the context of budget setting and projects was to ensure that we delivered the outputs we were supposed to deliver for the money we were getting. In terms of individual projects, some would be over budget while more would be under budget. One would have thought that if one did not have the occasional project going under budget then the budgets were probably being set too loosely. One would expect to have more coming in under budget rather than over budget so that, on balance, the programme was delivering the outputs it needed to deliver for the money being spent.