Mr. Mark Griffin:

I understand that. The Deputy has asked me a very specific question on PA Consulting, but I want to say a bit more about the employment of the other consultants he has outlined. This was a very large public private IT project. The history of the Civil Service and public service in delivering large public private IT projects is not great. I recall being before the committee six or seven months ago where the Department was accused - rightly at the time - of not applying the right number or the right level of resources to deal with the Bytel project. We were engaged in a project that was much more complicated than Bytel. It was essential, once the contract was awarded by Government, that we were in a position to deploy the right resources.