Ms Mary Hurley:

As the Deputy rightly said, Benefacts was a project funded by what was then the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform gathering detail and data relating to the not-for-profit sector, including financial and audit details. Totally separate from that, my Department has been looking at how it can improve its own data systems and data collection systems. That is the Pobal scoping exercise we have been focused on. It is totally separate from the Benefacts project. The scoping exercise we requested Pobal to undertake related to a live grant processing system that would streamline processes for the community and voluntary sector and give us a full picture of live data for grants to the community and voluntary sector. It is separate. They are two different things. One gathers very useful information relating to audited accounts, financial data and providing data sets on the sector. The other, for me, is very much around the Accounting Officer piece.