Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

I will start with the last question. The director of the National Concert Hall will not be the Accounting Officer. The Accounting Officer will be the Secretary General of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht insofar as the concert hall’s income from the Exchequer is concerned. I will come back to that question later.

I will start with the principles that governed the decision process-----