Mr. Ned O'Hara:

One of the services we can do in an increasingly digital world is to provide identity verification. It seems to me that in the context of a closed digital system, once you are in, you are in. The gateway to access to those systems can be guarded by postmasters. If a person wishes to access a system, he or she would have to present proof of identity to a postmaster. It may be that postmasters need to be made peace commissioners to do this. The postmaster would be the verifier of identity for people entering closed digital networks or, for instance, entering their name on the electoral register. All present know the electoral register is not currently accurate. I have been living in Dublin for almost 30 years and I have been visited only once to see how many people live in my house. If I was required to attend the post office with photographic ID, such as a passport, to get onto the electoral register, we would have a better electoral register. We have identified several services we can provide for the contract fee. That is one of those services. Mr. Martin referred to form generation. The green agenda is something we can do. We can provide services locally. We already provide a certain amount of services of which people are not aware locally. We can justify the €12 million in the context of value for money for the Government. As I stated, we do not want money for nothing. We can provide services and have identified them. There is an interdepartmental group examining the number of offline services that can be provided. The findings of that report have not yet been produced. We can do all of those things.