Mr. Gary Tobin:

The Deputy might allow me to give an example as illustration of what we are talking about here. As he will recall, an informal ECOFIN meeting was held in Dublin Castle earlier this year, the largest informal gathering that took place during the Irish Presidency. On that occasion two ICT companies, neither of them the organisation we are discussing, provided tablet computers for the European finance Ministers. It was apparently the first paperless meeting of finance Ministers in the history of the EU. There are always situations where ICT companies are involved in discussions with the Department around e-Government type issues. I do not believe that is particularly unusual at all.