Mr. Deaglán Ó Briain:

I will do so as concisely as I can but I want to make a few general points. There is an issue about the alignment of dormant accounts allocations with the annual Estimates. They are not the same. Getting a commitment for an amount under the dormant accounts heading does not mean one gets the money in a particular year's allocation. It does not involve an implication or an expectation that all the money will be spent in that year. For example, we got a commitment in December 2014 for Garda youth diversion projects, and clearly it would have been impossible to spend any of that money in December 2014. We work in partnership with non-governmental organisations, NGOs, which means we have a choice between expanding existing services, giving additional funding to NGOs with which we are already partnered and, alternatively, going out and inviting expressions of interest. Whatever we choose to do, we have a duty to assess applications properly and make sure we are getting value for money. When we got the commitment in December 2014, that was the first possible moment at which we could start having a dialogue with NGOs. From our point of view, it-----