Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan:

The feasibility study looked at whether shared services made sense or not and whether this was something the Government wanted to do. A business case was developed and looked at all of the central Government Departments, and any bodies under the aegis of the central Government Departments that may have been utilising their technology or their application. When I speak about the scope of bodies, that is set out in each single business case for HR, payroll and for finance shared services. Then the business case went to Government for a decision.