Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Please allow me to finish. I am reading from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. In December 2009 the Department of Social Protection entered into a contract with a supplier at a fixed price of €19.7 million. I am not going to catch Mr. Watt out on little figures, but I am giving a timeline and examples of the large costs involved. In 2009 the contract was entered into at a fixed price of €19.7 million, plus 21% tax. What was the contract for? It was to produce 3 million cards by 2013. Mr. Watt's Department and the Department of Social Protection were to work together, ag obair as lámh a chéile. That was the target. Was it reached? The answer is no. Have we even reached that target? The answer is no. By June 2016 there were 2.6 million cards. According to the report, the figure is now €60 million. Mr. Watt might update me, but the current position is that the Department has entered into a contract with a provider. If it does not succeed in providing a certain number of card, the Department will still pay. Mr. Watt is nodding. Will he clarify the nature of the contract?