Ms Laura Burke:

If the Senator gives me a moment, I can break down the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, for him. As for salaries and pensions, approximately €22 million of the EPA's budget is spent on salaries and pensions and out of that, our staff - including our approximately 80 staff members in enforcement - are paid. Information management and technology is approximately €6 million. Programme expenditure, which includes, for example, the Water Framework Directive, is €15 million and as I stated earlier, €2 million is for the work of the office of environmental enforcement, national waste prevention and our research programme.