Mr. Ronnie Downes:

When any Department is deciding on where to allocate its resources, it needs to take into account the pros and cons of engaging in current expenditure on an ongoing basis, which may be required and necessary in light of short-term and medium-term pressures on clients and citizens, versus the potentially nearer term costs and longer term benefits, including asset realisation, of a different approach. How exactly that is conducted and how the results of that are weighed into the reckoning is a matter for each Department concerned.