Mr. Peter Finnegan:

To start with, digitisation is Government policy so everybody is doing digital developments. On our side, we really started around 2018. We had very antiquated infrastructure in the Oireachtas. It was an infrastructure that was also extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks. We literally had to build it from the foundations up. We have done a good deal of that in terms of the foundational stuff and also in terms of some of the systems we have. Over the past four or five years we have placed a strong emphasis on digital parliament. The reason for that is the Dáil is a Legislature so we need digital technologies to enable Members to do their work, to enable the Dáil to function properly and to manage the throughput into the Dáil. We have placed a lot of emphasis on that. We are now moving towards the corporate side. We recently installed a new financial system. One of the big things about the Oireachtas is we are a large, complex organisation. We have 1,500 people. We have a budget of €565 million. We need good infrastructure to run the organisation. For example, we have 1,000 committee meetings a year, with 3,000 witnesses. That type of operation cannot run be without ICT. That has been our big focus.