Mr. Michael Tutty:

The Deputy asked if health expenditure is enough. We cannot comment on that as we do not have all the information but what we have seen is that a budget is set every year for health and during the year it is exceeded. That is not good budgeting by any means. It so happens that corporation tax receipts have exceeded what was expected and, hey presto, that offsets the higher expenditure, even though the health expenditure is likely to be permanent whereas nobody knows if the corporation tax will be permanent. We are not saying that too much is being spent on health but we are saying that there should be better budgeting rather than overruns every year.