Mr. Joseph Nugent:

I do not have that figure to hand but I will come back to the Deputy with that detail. The issues are primarily in a broad range of contracts in some high-level categories. They primarily relate to issues associated with towing contracts, cleaning services, translation services and medical services. To describe them in that way, the 94 and 73 breaches, respectively, reflects the number of individual contracts as opposed to the range of services involved. Clearly, the Accenture skilled resources piece fits in that space. We have made considerable progress, for example, in the area of medical services in the past few months where, if contracts have not been awarded they are in the final stages of being signed. I expect there will be a considerable reduction in that number over the course of the year.

There are some complexities in this space. Without getting into discussion about individual areas, certain companies have sought challenges against the award of contracts in the space which has delayed the awarding in certain areas.

I will certainly come back to the Deputy with a list of the 94 or the list for last year and we will comment on where we stand on each of those after this meeting.