Mr. Tom Byrne:

As the Deputy is probably aware, for us there was a cut of €150 million in the initial stages of the Haddington Road agreement. We were obliged to issue that cut into the system. Having obeyed the requirement to issue the figures, I made a decision within the HSE to draw €147 million of that figure back to hold centrally when I realised that the effects of time-related savings across the board enabled me to do so. It was not feasible. I am aware of the situation at Sunshine Home. We received from all parties details of the allocations they considered they could take and reviewed them across the board. I believe those discussions continued to a satisfactory conclusion between both parties, but it was unfortunate. We were, however, obliged to issue a figure. We decided to take it and hold it centrally.