Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There were a couple of different elements. One was that we had to extend our original expectation that we would be in production and have produced the three million cards by the end of 2013. For reasons relating to the producers of the card and take-up of that, we have had to extend the contract so we have had to revisit the financial aspects to take account of it to a very small extent. We updated the magnetic stripe on the card so that imposed an additional cost. Due to the fact that we wanted the card to be used as a seamless token in integrated ticketing, we paid for an additional development to allow Leap card functionality to be built into the card. We have also done similar work in terms of making the card ready to be used as a European residence permit so we have a public service card variant that is available for us in that context. Again, certain functionality has been built into the card so we had to pay for that. Those different things were taken together with the activation costs I spoke about to Deputy Connolly where we were required by the Data Protection Commissioner to put in place a process to verify that the individual who registered received the card.