Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

As Mr. Watt set out in his introductory comments, a number of different value for money tests are undertaken. The concept of a post-project review is a mid-term concept. Our first completion was in 2002 and we are now 16 years on from that out of 25. We focused on that. We have undertaken a number of value for money tests. We were the first Department to publish post-project public service benchmark, PSB, information. We have also now made available to the committee the three PSBs for the first three schools bundles that had PSBs. We are now publishing PSBs, as a policy, five years after so that commercial sensitivity is protected. We have been very open with regard to being innovative in publishing information about PSBs and in publishing PSBs. Analysis of those PSBs can be undertaken. We saw the post-project review process as a mid-term review process. We sought to do it a small number of years ago but we realised that we needed an intensity of engagement with it such that, given the pressures that we had to deliver school places, we had to prioritise school places. School place delivery was prioritised over the last five or six years in a major way as we faced this demographic bulge. We succeeded in providing school places for every child despite a huge increase in the number of places.