Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

I compliment Senator Barrett on the amendments, in particular amendment No. 24. The reality is that if accurate work had been done in regard to what is set out in amendment No. 24 in the past ten to 20 years, we might not have some of the problems we face today. On that basis, it is very important to set out this type of prescriptive requirement in the legislation, requiring the Department and the Secretary General to do this. As was pointed out, the functions of the Minister as set out in section 9 are all very laudable but are not very specific. It refers to ideas such as "promote value for money". As Senator Walsh said, it should be to "get value for money", and I am sorry he did not put that down as an amendment. Senator Barrett is being specific, as I believe we should be in legislation-----