Ms Colette Drinan:

The account discloses non-compliant procurement of €31,000 for 2017, and that occurs again in 2018. That arose in the context of our IT arrangements. We were considering the strategy we were using and how best to build resilience into the IT service, how much we should do in-house and how much we should contract out. In that context, we rolled over the contract we had in place until we had a better sense of what exactly we wanted to replace the contract with. Those services are being tendered for at the moment. We have moved to a shared service model with the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer. We came online there in December 2018 and on foot of that we have gone to the market for residual services we need.