Mr. Ronnie Downes:

The people who are best placed to answer that question are my colleagues in the Department of Social Protection themselves.

I am sure there are specific reasons in each case as to why targets have been achieved, underachieved or overachieved. The pandemic situation will play a role in that regard. I note, for example, on page 11 that there was a target for last year of 273,000 for working-age income support payments and 692,000 were delivered. That includes all the pandemic unemployment payments. Some trends go in other directions throughout the Department's Vote. The best way to run that to earth, so to speak, is to talk directly with colleagues in the Department of Social Protection, who I am sure would be happy to go through each of those indicators and give the explanation. That is exactly what this report is intended to do. It is intended to show what we are trying to achieve and whether we are ahead of target or below target, and therefore to support the committee in its role of asking critical questions of civil servants like us as to what has been accomplished.