Edward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I appreciate that integrating systems and streamlining payroll systems, centralising and having everyone follow the same rules is a good thing but often it can increase costs and the people who were meant to be replaced are never replaced. They are just left there and the payroll overhead increases. In Vote 19, there is an increase in costs from 2024 to 2025 from €14.5 million to €17 million. Is there a particular reason for that? It is about the Ombudsman.