Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have some questions. I will take the Green Party slot. I want to come back to the non-voted expenditure, which Mr. Barnes said is approximately 20% of spending. He will forgive my ignorance but when it comes to something like commercial semi-State bodies, which I presume are bodies such as ESB, he indicated that there has been quite an increase over the past period. Could he unpack that for me, so to speak, and explain what that looks like in terms of local government and commercial semi-State bodies? I presume that when he refers to extra spending he is talking about Supplementary Estimates. In that context, I am on the health committee, which had a meeting last week. Considering the times we find ourselves in, the numbers currently are eye-watering. What is the process in respect of commercial semi-State bodies? Is it multi-annual funding for capital spending that is the creep up in terms of spending or how does that happen?