Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

As I understand it, the fire brigade is included. The Department and the Minister intend that it will be included. It may turn out to be more practical for the Department and some of those agencies to work directly and not put them through a private process because it involves another public body as well and the HSE would not add any great value to that. I know the Minister is looking at ways to see can some of those payments, including those to the fire brigade, be accelerated.