Mr. David Moloney:

There are a number of ways of monitoring expenditure over the course of a year. There are monthly returns from the Departments on expenditure. There are quarterly reports to Government from the major Departments, from the major capital spending Departments. We have daily contact with the oversight management teams in the Department for various Votes, for various areas of spend. They would be in contact with their colleagues in other Departments on a daily and weekly basis. In some areas, we have more formal structures in order to do that, such as with the health budget oversight group.