Ms Caron McCaffrey:

A process was put in place to sign a new contract. That contract was signed in July 2020 for 2019 and the period up to July 2020. The old contract had expired so that would have been included in our returned and 40/02 cases . It simply was not possible to put alternative contract arrangements in place. I must stress the complexity of that contract. It took two years, between ourselves, the Office of Public Works and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, to draw it up. It is quite a large contract and-----