Mr. David Gunning:

There are two parallel processes here. There is the employer’s representative, who is the independent person acting to look at and examine the baseline programme and the programme on an ongoing basis. I will go back. At the end of September 2023, a new programme, which indicated October 2024, was submitted. In April of this year - I can get the Deputy the specific date - the employer’s representative wrote to the contractor and said the programme is no longer compliant and directed it to submit an updated programme. It is not that they are just writing at each other about these things. There is an ongoing engagement of workshops between the employer’s representative and the contractor’s programming team to move forward and discuss these issues. That is one process.

Separately, under the contract, the contractor is required provide regular progress updates to the employer's representative and the development board. The February date was provided this month in one of those updates.

I know we discussed this at one of these meetings previously. We have not typically communicated publicly every change that happens on a monthly basis because sometimes it goes out and comes back and various other things. We have only provided dates that are an outcome of the baseline programme, if you like - the programme itself. Given where we are today, and this committee, we wanted to share the most recent information we have.