Mr. John Dunne:

I will take the other hard questions. Budgeting and well-being indicators is an interesting area. At the moment, the budget is not the problem. The money literally cannot be spent because the staff are not there. I would go back to the SOLAS labour force projections for 2017, which came to the fairly remarkable conclusion that we were not going to require any increase in the supply of personal care workers in Ireland. We asked where in God's name SOLAS got that and it told us we would not understand the clever stuff it was doing. Budgeting is about planning. That was a cheap shot at SOLAS really. Nobody minds the odd mistake as long as the system is open enough to spot a particular problem, fix it, learn from it and move on. That is the short answer

The Senator asked about commissioning. The Japanese have a very interesting system. They do a price tender but they throw away the cheapest and the dearest, add up all the rest and come up with an average. Whoever is closest to the average wins the tender.