Dr. Orlaigh Quinn:

I think the Deputy needs to look at the Departments separately. Online companies are available to Revenue. We did not have that. One of the conditions for our scheme was that companies had to declare a 25% drop in expected turnover. That was not possible to ascertain at that time, apart from companies that had closed. It can only be determined afterwards whether companies experienced a 25% drop in turnover. As I mentioned at the beginning, if that kind of check was done at local authority level for companies that had closed, it would have required an army of staff. We did not have the online data, which were available to Revenue.