Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. I really just want short answers. As there are no additional Departments or entities, the issue is the nature of the work.

In respect of the fixed-price contract, obviously, the business case was made for it, and the fixed-price contract was to provide a degree of certainty, from a budgeting perspective, as to what had been done. Was a consultancy firm used to identify the scope of the project, or was that done in house?