Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)

I thank the Chair and welcome everybody. I wish Mr. Finnegan extremely well, and I thank him for his courteous engagement since the very beginning. I thank all of his staff and colleagues for the positions they are in in the Oireachtas. I am sure the Oireachtas would not run efficiently or effectively if we did not have these positions available to us, so I thank them.

I want to focus on the broadcasting of the Oireachtas. The cost of televising these proceedings in the Oireachtas for 2024 was estimated at €3.5 million. The actual cost in 2024 was €5.2 million. Mr. Finnegan has indicated that there were differences in relation to services from the previous year. Could he outline why there was such an underestimation, considering we knew the sitting schedule for the entire year 2024?