David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I have one point because I was somewhat critical, or at least I was asking questions around why some of the merger models were incurring more of a cost. When I examined this a bit closer, some of the institutes that are merging are at a more advanced stage, so there is a process. Some of them are behind. I know that in the case of Waterford and Carlow, they are way behind the Munster one, for example. I imagine that might have been one of the issues, to be fair to the institutes involved, because I was one of those asking questions, but when I examined it, I found some of them are much more advanced. They have been involved in the process for an awful lot longer.