Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Last year, in the 2020 bid for 2021, we put forward an estimated provision, for both the existing level of service and new developments we desired to pursue, which ran just short of €100 million, if I am not mistaken. Out of that, we got some €67 million coming in this year, which gave us a lot to work from, a good deal of stability and enabled us to reduce our historical deficit. We have been able to remain in that position coming into the recently announced 2022 budget.

As all public service bodies do, we listed the various things we would like to do and their estimated cost. While the initial estimate ran at approximately €80 million, or whatever it was, we finished up with €40.5 million. We also have a capital allocation of approximately €17.5 million. From the point of view of a success of estimates in terms of what we ask for and what we get, I am quite happy we have done reasonably well to build on what we can.