John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To conclude, and I thank the Chairman, the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General affords a good opportunity. Unfortunately, for anybody from the outside who looked at that report and the nine major issues, bad management and incompetence were evident in all the different chapters of that report.

As the Chairman said, it is very important for the future that it is not just a name change. People do not want to find that when we reconfigure different bodies we reappoint the same people to different boards. People want action, straight talk and results. Clearly, from the point of view of coming before this committee again, I have no doubt that when the Comptroller and Auditor General has time to do a study on the reconfiguration of the 16 bodies he will look at the duplication of jobs, the people who were CEOs and where a new CEO is appointed for a reconfigured area. How were they made redundant or what happened to their jobs?