Mr. Colin Bray:

The Prime2 is a significant project for the State, not just Ordnance Survey Ireland. We have been working on the Prime2 strategy for close on seven years and that is to put in a new national spatial infrastructure for the State. We talk about the digital mapping we have and how the local authorities, the telcos, etc., would use that information for their own operations.

Over the past seven years we have put in a strategy to develop a new digital mapping system for the State. The first four years involve research, development, understanding best in breed, and waiting for international standards to become robust. We have had a commercial contract over the past two years to re-engineer our data into that new data model, and that will be complete by the end of this year. That provides an international standards-based new platform for Ordnance Survey Ireland and also for the State. The data can be used by customers and by users in an industry-standard format of a very high quality.