Mr. Paul Reid:

If I can respond, Chairman, I absolutely reject some of the language, comments and accusations the Deputy made. First of all, some of the facts are wrong. A significant proportion of the €81 million has been recovered. We brought the committee through the detail of that last week. It is not 2,100 ventilators because we stopped the purchase. That is what we set out to purchase at the start. When we had significant ventilators we stopped further procurement. I make no apologies on behalf of my-----