Ms Clare McGrath:

Perhaps I included it because I was able to find, from a final account, a reference to ministerial accommodation. I was anxious to establish, for the purpose of the committee, whether I could get something. Many staff were working on how we could source this information across all the projects that were carried out in buildings that are occupied by Ministers. We found it very hard to extract that element because it depends on how it was presented in the account. Consequently, this one happened to have such a reference. As I indicated in my letter, it may not be a fair comparison, for want of a better word, because it was work undertaken as part of a bigger project. As a result, the overheads and preliminaries apply to a much bigger area than taking one job on its own. It is not a clear comparator but it was one in which the final account referred to the ministerial suite, that is, to a series of offices. I think it was in the order of approximately 90 sq. m and was in fact a smaller space but that is-----