Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I would expect it to be reduced. I will give an example of what can happen. People ask me how this happens. It may sometimes be that a particular procurement process is used because the expected expenditure is under a certain threshold. The offers that come in may then exceed that level. It is not that there has not been a competitive process. It is that it was the wrong competitive process for the price. That has happened on a number of occasions. One of the things we now have in place, as well as the issue I have already mentioned, is a training module. We have a specialised procurement unit. Someone is now handing me a note for the best of reasons. I am told that we sent the committee the Circular 40/02 return for 2022 in January. The committee has it but I do not have it in front of me. I apologise.