Mr. Gerard Brady:

I will take the question about budgetary policy. We were not saying take in less tax from corporates but that we will need to continue to take a lot of tax from corporates if we are to underpin public infrastructure projects. Last year, we said some of the money in short-term schemes was needed and some was not. Some was given to households that did not need it. There are other priorities for society, including housing and public infrastructure, that could have used it ahead of that. It is not that we need more breaks; we said in our opening statement and in the document that public infrastructure needed to be prioritised ahead of tax cuts and all other priorities for spending. We are saying infrastructure first rather than anything else.

On private sector corporate interests getting access to the Government, a lot of companies trying to deliver infrastructure feel they are still challenged in doing so. There are companies trying to deliver a lot of projects. Housing, public transport, water, wastewater and the electricity grid are all shared priorities between us and lots of other groups. It is not that business has one set of infrastructure priorities and households have a different one.