Mr. Mark Griffin:

In regard to the staff and moving work from the external consultants into the staffing team in the Department, we are doing that. We have sanction to increase the staff number in the NBP team over the course of this year. For example, on Mr. Neary's side as the chief technology officer, we are putting in place two senior people at a level below him who will have the capacity to absorb some of the work that perhaps has been undertaken by Analysys Mason. We have assigned an additional principal officer to the area as well. We are actually looking at that on an ongoing basis to make sure that we are making best use of the money available to us.

With regard to the risk register, there were risks identified in the project right from the very start and worked through as part of the competitive dialogue process identified when the contract was being submitted to Government for consideration. Risks are actively managed on a daily basis on the project. I spoke earlier about the various groups that are in place in terms of governance and the contract liaison board that Mr. Mulligan leads on between the Department and NBI where risk issues, dependencies and, all of that are teased out on a regular basis. There is an active risk register within the Department that is being worked through. The usual stuff is impact probability and stuff being moved off and addressed or being elevated as a risk consideration where that risk is more evident at a particular point in time.