Ms Josephine Feehily:

I have made that argument, and we discussed it here last year. In the first comprehensive review of expenditure that was done in 2011, which is published, we indicated, and I do not have the numbers in my head now, an additional resource on the audit side. We committed to bringing in additional money. I do not want to sound as if I am complaining. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform had a difficult job to do in recent years in balancing the books. However, I can assure the Deputy that every year we fought the good fight for additional resources.

We did manage to get sanction for niche specialists just recently. This was referred to in the Minister's budget speech. We have received sanction to recruit experts for international tax, particularly transfer pricing, so we make that argument every year. This year, they listened and we are going to get a little bit extra in our budget for next year.