Mr. John O'Grady:

The Deputy should let me answer the question. The estimate was approximately €1.57 billion. That was our estimate when budget discussions were going on in September and October 2021. At that point, obviously, there was a level of volatility regarding where the Covid pandemic might go in 2022. It was agreed between the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform that we would effectively take a wait-and-see approach. There was an initial allocation of €500 million for public health. Of that, €497 million went to the HSE and €3 million was held in the Department. We did not break that down further in terms of individual budgets for PPE, for testing and tracing, and for vaccines on the reasonable assumption, I think, there was likely to be a shortfall so it did not make sense to break that shortfall into further individual shortfalls.