Ms Clare Costello:

Certainly, no problem at all. As the Deputy outlined, there are two ways to move funds from one pot to another, as she put it. It can either be done through virement or a technical Supplementary Estimate. We need to look at the instance referenced by the Deputy in the context of the substantial savings due to Covid-19. Mr. Doyle outlined that a lot of the capital savings had arisen because of the construction shutdown. In that instance, it was a judgment call between ourselves and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that the money could be moved via virement rather than a technical Supplementary Estimate.