Ms Josephine Feehily:

We did not count it. When I responded to Deputy Fleming earlier, I mentioned a project that was established by the Government after it was decided that Departments should seek to reduce the administrative burden by 25% over a certain number of years from the base year of 2008. We were part of that project, which was run by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

It is a burden reduction project which is undertaken using the standard cost model. The Department engaged consultants; we supplied it with the data and worked with them and the sum was arrived at. That is all I can tell the Chairman about the project. As the findings have been published, I can send the committee the report.