Mr. Dave Walsh:

On the overall project costs, there are a number of different elements from licensing costs to business analysts and programme managers to assist us as well as the core development costs. We estimate the core development costs to be just over €1 million. This is what OpenSky is doing. There are other supports.

I refer to the best laid plans and our best estimates for assessing the future costs. We had advisers on board and programme managers and people with expertise in this area who said what it should cost. The big challenge with any kind of project, whether IT or not, is that if it goes over schedule, it will cost more. We need people for longer and we need to budget for that.

When we started off in 2014, we did not have strategic housing as a function or vacant sites as a function. We also did not have the developments that have happened in the last five years in terms of the expectation of moving everything to the cloud. We want to ensure we do not just retain and keep with the old product envisaged in 2014, but that we create a product that is future-proofed for the next five to ten years and that can be agile and adapt to the future requirements.