Mr. Sean Martin:

I thank Deputy Carey for his kind words. We met the Deputy last night at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party meeting. The Deputy has been a huge supporter of ours over the past number of years, as has the Chairman. The Chairman's help has been extremely important to us.

I challenge any politician or public representative to tell me today that the €12 million that we are looking for is not value for money considering what we bring to communities. We bring, as I said, the €6.7 billion in relation to the economy, we bring - Grant Thornton put this figure on it, not us - in excess of €344 million in the context of social dividend and social cohesion, and we bring the green agenda in respect of keeping carbon emissions down by keeping services local.

There is an amount of extra that we said we could do. We could do the ID verification and form generation for passports, for the electoral register and for the Department of Social Protection.