Mr. Mark Griffin:

On the two issues, I will take the Comptroller and Auditor General's comment first that it should be separated out into a subhead in the Vote. He is correct on that. We need to carve it out given how over-representative it is on spend under the A3 subhead. We will look at that between the Abridged Estimates volume that was published yesterday and the Revised Estimates Volume which will be published at the end of the year. We will talk to our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on that.

We receive multiple parliamentary questions on the blue-amber area in cities. We attempt to look at the specific premises involved to see if there are commercial operators in the area that intend to provide a service as part of their work programme. There is a facility within the contract to extract premises that are defined as blue in the existing map and to put them into the amber pot so that they will be catered for under the NBP. That work is ongoing in consultation with commercial operators. To the extent required, we will engage with the European Commission on that. What we have seen in the past year and a bit, since the project kicked off, is that a large number of issues have been raised on the matter and we will respond to that.