Mr. Mark Griffin:

No. I suppose what I am trying to say is that when one considers the evolution of this project, one realises it was first studied in substantial detail in 2006 as part of the report of the National Postcode Project Board, which settled, for a variety of reasons, on a postal sector model. We carried out a very substantial cost-benefit analysis in 2006 and brought the result to the Government in 2007. The decision taken at that stage was not to proceed on the basis that the cost-benefit analysis did not stack up. We went back to the Government in 2009 for further consideration of the matter. The best estimate at that stage, as we have said, was based on a project that would cost €18 million, including VAT. We did not provide for two substantial components at that stage, the biggest one being the encoding of public sector databases. In the intervening period, it was made clear from further evaluation-----