Mr. Jim Breslin:

Capital envelopes are for three years. Decisions had been made in the context of the national development plan. One can be certain that the Department of Health regularly, including through the process in question, states that it could do with more funding because we have lots of priorities. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform indicated that was not part of the discussion. People should not forget that we had a huge Supplementary Estimate, which ended up at €625 million on the current side, and the current Estimates for this year also had to be concluded. There were a lot of conversations about funding requirements over this period.