Mr. John A. Moran:

First, the Department has set out a three-year statement of strategy. We have set out a programme of reform and we need time to achieve and complete it in terms of seeing the results. However, we started with this principle that, as the Deputy put it, there is no growth in the system but there is growth in the Irish economy. I would prefer to see much higher growth in the Irish economy because it would make life a lot easier for everyone, but we also have been faced with a lack of growth across the international spectrum, which has made a lot of the planning that was put in place much more difficult, and it needs to be changed. We have been modifying it as we go along and that is part of the process of review through which we go.