Dr. Adele Bergin:

What we saw in 2024 was inadequate budgeting to begin with and the Estimates for current spending just got ramped up over the course of the year. Most recently, around the time the annual progress report came out, we had the final Estimate for 2024, which was well above what was currently planned. One of the things that makes it really difficult then is that it tends to flatline the expenditure forecasts for subsequent years. If we take the final Estimate for 2024 and look at the most recent Estimate for 2025, the actual amount of growth that is allowed for is actually quite low. It is in the region of 1% to 2%.