Mr. Liam Kidd:

I do not have the total project costs. The Schengen information system was subject to restricted tender 141/2006. It went to tender and it was completed in 2009 or 2010. We went to the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to confirm, once money became available, that we would still use that procurement and the office confirmed that. With the crash that happened after 2009, I was given specific instructions to reduce all ICT expenditure and to cancel and suspend any major projects. At the time it included the Schengen project, major investigations management, command and control systems and a number of other major projects. The funding would not have been available for them.