Ms Breda O'Sullivan:

I will respond to that. We can never be complacent about the investment we have here. A major focus of the new strategy is placing clients at the centre and working on strengthening investments already made here. This becomes more important in turbulent times, with the current tariffs and all the rest of it, but it has to happen all the time. It relates to what Mr. Hughes said about training and upskilling in research and development, and also to some of what we were talking about today in terms of environmental aid and increasing energy efficiency. A company cannot take a lot of cost out. There can also be help with competitiveness in the area of digitalisation. We just have to keep working with companies all the time. I am aware that there are huge moves at governmental level nationally to ensure we are always focused on competitiveness, because complacency in this area is very dangerous.

Our CEO is issuing half-year results for the year to date on 2 July. The numbers are not finalised yet but it looks like they will be more or less similar to those of last year.