Mr. John Kinnane:

There is a Vote section within the Department that deals with all of the line Departments and as the settlements are reached on the ELS, that aggregate figure of €500 million emerges. The ELS negotiation is a major part of the budgetary process. It emerges fairly late in the process as some of the bigger Departments, in particular the Department of Social Protection, have a very significant impact on the overall figures. It is as each Department's ELS is settled that we then get a view on the aggregate figure but it happens very late in the process.