Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)

That brings me to my second question, which is that there is some element of that surplus being put towards these Estimates. I agree with the Minister in general in respect of being countercyclical in terms of using the surplus for the downturn in the future but the Minister is using some small element of the surplus in this year to cover the Supplementary Estimates. How is that decision made? Who decides the amount of the surplus that could be used in the current year or in the current upturn, as we might put it?