Ms Madeleine Delaney:

Those consultancy costs the Deputy quoted relate to the figures of €500,000 and €51,485. They relate to day-to-day consultancy costs, if you like, where we supplement our own ability to carry out work with consultants. Legal costs would be included in that, as well as the cost of accountancy firms that fill the role of inspector. We also had some exceptional IT costs related to a project for us to procure a new digital platform. The digital platform is basically the system by which we do all our work. It supports the register of charities, it puts the information up there, it is the customer portal where people access it and it is how we do our back office work. It is a very extensive, important and complex strategic project for us. We engaged the services of a project manager and a business analyst to help us do the work for that.