Ms Sinead Copeland:

The money that was spent on that kind of wider citizen engagement plan was allocated in the first year of the programme to really get to grips with what the programme is about and to showcase the breadth of activity that is happening out there at national and local level. We broke that down under national and regional headings to try and get a really wide spread. There is so much more uptake of information on digital platforms now, and we felt that, based on previous experience - in particular the Ireland 2016 centenary programme - it was a good investment in the first year in order to try and get good quality content and products. That is why we chose to do this in the first year.