Mr. Robert Watt:

A question was asked about expenditure pressures. Every week there are demands for new services, pay increases, capital projects and members have heard a flavour of this here today. Every day in the Oireachtas there are demands for more and more of everything. Every lobby group wants to spend more money on everything and reduce taxes. It would seem that the demands are infinite and obviously resources are finite. This is the reality of the budget spending challenge. The tax challenge faced by Mr. Moran and the spending challenge faced by us and our respective Ministers are happening all the time. There are never ending demands for expenditure on absolutely everything. Within our managing board, from week to week we would-----