Mr. Peter Finnegan:

That is a very good question. The model we have at the moment is a steering committee, which Michael chairs and Ciarán is on as well. It is a committee like that, which will work and ensure that there are no reputational impacts arising from work in the Houses. We had a similar committee in 2018 for the major restoration project and we had four people on it. It met very regularly, and that project came in essentially on budget and on time. There is the need for formality when you are dealing with projects, and a committee like that imposes a degree of formality on work in Leinster House and scrutinises costs. That is absolutely essential. When those costs go to the commission then, that is a further sense check. When I read the reports in preparation for this morning, one of the big standout lines from the report was about the sense check. Procurement was done on that project, but it was that sense check. Did €336,000 for a bicycle shelter make any sense? No, it did not. The process we have, therefore, is an assurance process to make sure that type of thing never happens again, and it cannot happen again here.