Mr. Robert Watt:

We did not try to hide the deficit. There was a discussion about the financial risk based on the allocation. There was a fairly significant allocation in the budget for this year and there was a financial risk identified, as the Deputy said, by the acting CEO. It is the job of the acting CEO of HSE, as it is of the current CEO, to endeavour to stay within their budget; that is their job. There was a discussion about the extent of the financial risk and there were different views about that, which is fine. We are allowed to have different views. As the year progressed, as the CEO alluded to, things became worse. The demand on the system was greater and the inflation environment impacted on us much more than we anticipated. Whatever view there was at the end of they year about the risk and the pressures, we have just got much greater demands than we expected, as the CEO alluded to, and prices have gone up more than was predicted at the time, so there are these different factors. The debate is a debate in the same way Mr. Gloster and I have debates about this in that we have to endeavour to stay within the allocation set by the Government. We do not control that.