Mr. Jim Breslin:

-----but there has been significant upgrading of financial systems. We have not put our request to the HSE for enhanced financial information on hold while a national financial system is delivered. We must come up with work-around approaches that deliver better and more reliable information across the interim period. Investments have been made to do that both in terms of technology and also the right calibre of skilled staff. That is the HSE's piece of this. It has been working on it and the committee will have heard about it in the past. The piece for which the Department has assumed an added responsibility is that from 1 January I take Accounting Officer duties for that expenditure. We are developing the capability in the Department to enhance the skills it currently has. As I said, it is a relatively small Department. We have put in place enhanced financial leadership within the Department and we are going to-----