Mr. John McCarthy:

Parliamentary questions are a very good example. The Deputy asked about our interaction with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Both Departments have engaged in doing that together. The outsourced information technology is a function of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and we are moving to an automated system, having already done so in relation to parliamentary questions, for ministerial and policy submissions. We are moving together; therefore we can roll it out further. The genesis for the exercise was a journey one of our people undertook to other Departments to spot other best practices. Some Departments are ahead of others. There were others which already had some of this stuff.