Mr. John Hogan:

There may have been discussion with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which would not have surfaced at our level because they were not at a decision point. In fairness, much of the attention over the past number of years - Mr. McCarthy mentioned it earlier - has been on other issues and other areas of crisis. We have been reacting to the Brexit situation, we have been reacting to the pandemic and now we are dealing with the war in Ukraine. It is not that I am minimising the importance of this particular issue but that we have not seen at this stage the nature of the work that needs to be done for us to make an economic appraisal of something.