Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I will go through them. We have approximately €100 million in procurement. We are not complacent about the €3.5 million and are working hard to make it better every year. Approximately €1 million of it involved 11 contracts where the processes were intended to comply, but the price that came in exceeded the threshold for the relevant process. We did engage in a process.

Almost €350,000 involved cases of urgency where we had to dispose of biological waste because of avian influenza, so we had to do those quickly. Perhaps we should put a more permanent arrangement in place for that kind of eventuality. In any event, we did not have a pre-existing contract for it.

There is another category where some contracts were rolled over when they should not have been. We will focus on those now and try to get rid of that practice.