Mr. Paul Reid:

I will speak briefly on what is being challenged. As the chief financial officer, Mr. Mulvany, has outlined, the main challenges specifically relate to ventilators. As the Deputy has quite rightly stated, on some of the early initial deliveries, a small number of the total delivery of certain PPE items was not up to the standard we specified and ordered. We immediately engaged with the suppliers at that time. For the record, it was one of the biggest orders that any country managed to secure at the time for PPE.

What was happening on the ground, and this is in some reports, was that as we secured those orders, other institutions and other countries were trying to outbid us on what we had secured. For the order that arrived on the next flight, we got replacements to the specification for the smaller number of items that were not specified correctly.