Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We would like to see it earlier. We would like to see it coming in with the appropriation account. It is a relatively simple cash account and it is not a big ask. In fairness to the Department, in the year it was submitted late, in September, it was at the point when the function was being transferred from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. A certain leeway can be given in the first year but it should have been bedded down by now and I would have expected to get it earlier.