Mr. Mark Griffin:

I am happy to come in on that. Looking at the situation in 2019, as the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, the total non-compliant spend was just short of €9.9 million. The bulk of that was, at least in terms of value, across 13 contracts, 12 NBP contracts. I touched on this with Deputy Murphy. These were services we had procured to assist us in the NBP procurement process. They amounted to €5.5 million of the €9 million in non-compliant spend. Effectively, we were in the final stages of an award. It would have been simply untenable to change horses at that stage. Doing that would have represented bad value for money and would have set back the project. The other big contract was for €2.3 million. This was an extension of the contract for the National Digital Research Centre, pending the completion of a procurement process. That process is now completed and we have a new provider, a new concessionaire, in place. Some 79% of the contract values related to both the NBP and the NDRC. Looking at the 36 contracts that were non-compliant in 2019, four of them, to the value of €420,000, remain non-compliant. We are going to get them resolved during the course of 2021.