Mr. Liam Kidd:

It is being addressed. The key issue was the ability of ICT skilled resources and the people we had to run complex tenders such as this. There were a number of tenders with Accenture and the big one was the ICT skilled resources example. Another would be the automated fingerprint identification system, AFIS, integrated with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB. There were some other tenders with Accenture. They would originally have been won by Accenture through a competitive procurement process. The big one that we currently have to tender for - it is currently being prepared and some of it is out in the market - is the ICT skilled resources example. That was mainly highlighted in the audit report. Owing to its size and the lack of people in my organisation, I took the tender back to my office approximately 18 months ago, and I ran a mini-tender through my office to get a procurement person or company to assist the preparation of the new tenders and get the tender to the market. That company was hired 18 months ago. My team and I have come up with four tenders out of that complex original skilled resources tender. One will be for the ICT help desk and it has gone to the Office of Government Procurement in order to go to the market. One is for ICT security, another is for ICT operations and the other is for the strategic transformation office. All of those tenders should be with the Office for Government Procurement within two weeks.