Mr. Timmy Hennessy:

We might go back to the construction products regulation, which sets out the standards for the production of construction products and, in particular, concrete products. Officials initially looked at that list of concrete products and we set some criteria for including them in the list we recommended to the Minister. The criteria essentially were as to their use in the construction of roof structures or dwellings. That resulted in some precast concrete standards not being included in the 17 that were published on budget day. That was the first technical analysis of what precast products should be recommended to the Minister to be in or out of the scope of the levy.

Subsequent to that, contact was made by Enterprise Ireland expressing some of its opinions in respect of its client companies and the impact that this could potentially have on its client companies, which were also engaging in the production of some of the precast standards which were within the scope of the levy at that time.

Ultimately a decision on scoping and as to what was in or out is a policy decision for the Minister, which was one that was-----