Mr. Joseph Nugent:

At the same time, we need to recognise the very significant amount of work that has been undertaken by the ICT area to maintain the systems very successfully over that period of time. We have not had the kind of outage that has happened in other areas. That is reflective of the commitment of both the permanent staff working within Mr. Kidd's team and the contracted resources that are also in place. The Deputy asked about risk. In fairness, I think we have managed the risk as best we can in the context of an over-reliance on contracted resources. As to whether this has provided value for money, I would argue it has not. We certainly would have been better using permanent resources. We will progress the question of recruiting staff into ICT starting with our meeting this afternoon.