Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The chairman of the OPW and her colleagues are very welcome. This is an unusual meeting for us, in that it is not the normal type of discussion we have. It is focused on a much more principled-based approach to issues we do not normally engage with here. I wish to again confirm with Ms McGrath the point the Chairman asked her. She said in her opening statement that she is open to applying the principles drawn from the guidance issued by New Zealand's Comptroller and Auditor General's office to improve the performance information in the Estimates and she concluded by saying some of these measures will carry forward over the next number of Estimates. There is an agreement in principle to do it over several years. She said in the final paragraph of her statement that it will be done over a number Estimates, over a number years. She accepts the principle. Is she hoping that somebody will forget about this as she seems to be putting it very much on the long finger?