Mr. Robert Watt:

The Health Research Board has guidelines on this, which would have been respected. The intention was that a properly led programme across the different public health departments, led by Dr. Holohan, would have been able to leverage very significant funds across the EU. The contribution of the Irish Exchequer would have been a part of it. When the details were worked out, the balance may have changed between the Exchequer contribution and the EU contribution so the Exchequer contribution would have been lower. This is something in which, as a country, we are going to have to invest significantly-----