Mr. John Conlon:

In relation to the capital works, we have always operated a procurement process for maintenance and minor works whereby contractors are encouraged to bid for inclusion on a list of approved building contractors, which we call the contractors list. That is a competitive process. They go through an application process and we use that list to competitively tender works. I must emphasise that there is a competitive process to this. The issue that arises and that has given us difficulties relates to the thresholds we have applied. We have exceeded those thresholds, thereby breaching the procurement rules, in about 94 cases. We are working on that and are improving our behaviour in that space. In addition, the thresholds are also increasing to bring us more into compliance in that space. One of the reasons it arose as an issue for us is that we just got busier and busier. We were doing more work and pulling down off those contracts rather than doing some more detailed work at the time to make sure we were within the thresholds.