Ms Laura Burke:

As I said, we are regionalised and we have offices around the country. We have a combination of our own premises, such as our headquarters in Wexford, which is owned by the State and the EPA. We also have our own facility in Monaghan, and then we lease our Castlebar office from Mayo County Council, which is a long-standing arrangement. The State also owns our building in Kilkenny. On our buildings in Dublin, we have a licence agreement with University College Dublin, UCD. We are based on the Richview campus and that is also long-standing, probably around 15 or 20 years old at this stage. When the merger between the EPA and the RPII took place, the RPII rented a building on the same campus so we continued on with that rental agreement. We did go out last year when the term of the rental agreement was up for renewal and we got advice on the status of the amount we were paying for rent and we got assurance from an independent estate agent that the amount we were spending was not in excess of what we should be spending.