John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will continue. As far as the report is concerned financial management as set out in the memorandum of understanding was not sufficiently followed up by the donors in terms of ensuring they had a clear and proper overview of funding and expenditure in the programme. However, they could not have had such overview because another fragment of the report stated that the peace, recovery and development plan, PRDP, is not a coherent programme as it comprises a number of separate projects brought together in a conceptual programme but not in an actual defined programme. Is it not an issue in itself that in some ways the structure of the PRDP prevented proper financial oversight? This is an issue with regard to being able to audit and evaluate a programme sufficiently.