Mr. Gordon Jeyes:

The service we get in terms of revenue support for IT is as if we were a continuing part of the HSE. The only IT officials I have are managers - the two excellent colleagues I inherited from the education and welfare services. The specialist resource I have for IT is two managers who coped with an organisation of 100 people. We have 4,000. I have had discussions with them on how to get a specification right for us with the resource to be agreed. We can then have discussions with the chief information officer and others to go for a managed service. The important element is to get the specification right because if one rushes through that sort of contract, one is stuck with it.