John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps you will provide the figures as soon as you can.

To move on to general items, issues arise here in the committee and we are often told that it is the responsibility of your Department. I will start from the beginning, the minute, which is important. You say in your opening statement that you are up to date and everything is fine. That is true. However, the actual response from the Department to the proposals made through the Committee of Public Accounts on various issues is often "not agreed". Therefore, one can have a situation where we make a recommendation arising from a hearing, the Department gets the report and responds by saying "not agreed". I will give an example. In the case of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it was suggested that there should be a financial controller within that Department and in big spending Departments. That recommendation was made. Basically, it relates to some of the recruitment you mentioned - you need to have professionals. Why is it the case that there are no financial controllers in the big spending Departments or risk assessment officers, as in the Department of Social Protection, and why was the answer "No"?