Mr. John Conlon:

It is hard to predict in any given year what we will spend on site purchase or site disposal. We dispose of properties every year as well, and sometimes that can be reinvested if the Department of public expenditure and reform agrees. We expend additional money on site purchases where we get the opportunity to do so, with the consent of the Department of public expenditure and reform. I mentioned earlier, for example, that this year we are purchasing a new office building in Dublin, which will be cost effective in terms of getting rid of a long-term lease and payback period. We do take opportunities to purchase properties where we can do so.

Two examples this year are the office building in Dublin 1 and the Castletown House estate, which we purchased this year. Both purchases were based on doing business cases and a lot of evaluation. We work with our colleagues in the Department of public expenditure if additional funds are required to do that.