Mr. Robert Watt:

Any organisation that returns money to the Exchequer on behalf of the taxpayer is not necessarily particularly efficient. In our case, we had planned to expand a number of programmes but were not able to do so as quickly as hoped. As the Deputy is aware because we have discussed this many times, there are difficulties in recruiting the right staff and trying to meet deadlines, particularly relating to new projects, especially on the IT side. Many of the underspends relate to IT. We have ramped up the spend and that involves the recruitment of people and the use of expertise in order to deliver on the build to share programme. However, we were not able to get people on board as quickly as we had hoped, particularly in regard to the OGCIO and the learning and development shared services project which I mentioned. We may have been overly optimistic in regard to delivery of these programmes. It is a budgeting challenge rather than an indicator of particular efficiency on our part.