Mr. Sean Larkin:

On a question that was raised by Deputy Kerrane, a cost-benefit analysis was carried out on the rural social scheme in 2009. We are probably five years into the scheme at this stage. For every euro that the Government invested at that stage, we had a payback of €2.89. This was probably part of the collapse of the forum as well because we applied extensive pressure on the Department to carry out another cost-benefit analysis. The Department would absolutely not hear of it because those figures would quadruple in terms of what we are worth and what we are saving the Government. As we are around the table here, we are making a big ask in respect of the amount of money we are saving the Government. I thank the Chairman.