Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The €200 million was not due to the HSE seeking to bring in a surplus. We always seek to operate within budget. It is much more a factor of the complexity of trying to plan and estimate, particularly in the year of Covid. Effectively, some of our services' activity levels were depressed, reducing some of our costs. We were not able to progress with as many developments because we were responding to Covid and that €240 million outweighed a small overrun of about €40 million on the Covid side. It was a balance between planning and estimation in the level of uncertainty around Covid.

To clarify, I have not said we have taken legal proceedings against four companies. That is the number of companies we are engaging with to get back the value we have not yet secured out of the figures that were mentioned. Our preference is to do that by negotiation and commercial discussions. We simply are keeping all options open, including those that could become necessary, but I have not indicated that we are taking proceedings against four companies.