Ms Mary O'Donohue:

The growth in demand for build-to-share services, where we provide a range of common-suite services to Departments to help lift the load in terms of delivery of technology and digital services, has increased the overall level of spend. So as not to disproportionately influence the overall Vote in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, it was decided in the Department that establishing a separate Vote for OGCIO, as the Secretary General said, allows for transparency and it is obvious to see how we grow and how we grow those services. We currently offer the standard suite of corporate desktop services as any organisation would use to 18 organisations covering over 5,000 users across the Civil Service and public service. That will grow by another six organisations by the end of 2023 and so we will support about 10,000 users directly. We do Government networks, a nationwide service to all public service bodies. We have applications services. We build something once and use it many times so that it maximises the investment of the State in services like that. In recognising that growth, it was to separate it out from-----