Ms Anne Killian:

I will give a few figures on Plean-IT. I go back to when Plean-IT started, which was way back in 2014. At that stage, it was a proposed cost for five years of just under €3 million, or €2.934 million. That was broken down into consultancy work for scoping. In the first year, I understand there were some delays due to the tender process and in order to get the correct people, and then the project was up and running. In 2014, the spend was quite low and, again, the spend was quite low in 2015. It was mainly what we would call consumables in that we were assessing what we needed. We capitalise what we build, so it would be later on in the project that there would be more capital spend. It moved into 2016, where the spend was €572,000. In 2017, there was a larger capital build because that is when the Plean-IT system was being fully geared up to go live, and it went live in October 2017. We then moved on to 2018. The capital cost dipped at that stage and we moved to rolling it out, getting it functional and getting more functions involved, such as bulk uploads and different bundles the designers had been working on, and the consultants were engaged in assessing what scope we required. In 2019, there was a spend of €568,346 in total. Capital is €139,000 or €140,000 of that, and there are consumables. At that stage, the in-house developers moved in on the process, so there was a bigger consumable spend at that stage.

A reassessment was done in October 2020, looking at the spend to date. With all the different changes that were required as the years passed and the needs changed, we had a six-year spend which was coming out at €3.4 million. We had estimated spends at that point, looking at 2020 and 2021, and looking at the final project, which would include the website which went live this year, of-----