James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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I imagine that will be farmed out to a private firm. A contract would be offered, similar to what happened previously. We know Benefacts cost circa €7 million, which is a very significant amount of taxpayers' money.

My second question is a follow-up to whether a contract would potentially be given to a private company to undertake. Has the Department lost the data? Is the data, which was paid for through Benefacts, still available to the Department and others? Where does that data now sit? It is okay if Ms Hurley does not know the answer to that. I know the remit falls to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform too, but I would like to get a picture of the situation.