Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

It all comes back to the same point around uncertainty and managing risk. We can look back now and disagree with the judgments that were made and the Deputy is quite entitled to do so. However, they were the decisions that had to be made at the time. We were clear and our CEO was clear, that we would not get every decision right. There was a real fear that we would not have sufficient ventilators to be able to provide care to people. I would prefer to be here arguing over why we are down to the last €22 million we have not yet been able to secure, than having a discussion about why people died because we did not have enough ventilators. That was the very real risk we faced.