Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

Again, it was a decision ultimately of the Arts Council, which took decisions to apply additional resources to it. Reading chapter 7, what struck me was that these reports said, especially in the early days, that the project had run into a problem and it was beginning to track orange or red, but it was okay because there was a solution. That was part of the overall problem and the reason the Department did not sound the alarm bells earlier. It saw a project - ICT projects can be difficult - where some issues had arisen, but it was okay, the Department was getting assurances they were being dealt with. That is fundamentally one of the main reasons the Department did not step in earlier to say "halt".