Mr. Kevin Meaney:

The IMF report was completed in September 2017. The new office was established in 2018. It was originally the infrastructure programmes and projects office, now called the national investment office. That office is still in charge of the public spending code and the wider frameworks. As the Deputy said, for a period of years it did the technical reviews at key stages. I might come back to the EY report and the mix. In 2019, we introduced the new public spending code. Even as far back as that, we were indicating an external assurance process and maybe supplementary processes, such as the major projects advisory group, were to be introduced over the lifetime from 2019 onwards. They subsequently were introduced in 2021. They supplemented the work of our office, the national investment office.

That was prior to the EY report being published. I wonder was EY aware that this was in the works and we had it planned and announced in 2019. It was supporting that recommendation.