Ms Mary Austin:

The Secretary General has said the way the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would operate. There are circulars. There are procurements. The Secretary General mentioned circular 40/2002. There is the office of public procurement and various things like that. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will give sanction for various things. It will list out requirements. The operation of a procurement procedure will be a matter for the Department concerned and the Accounting Officer. Failures in those systems do occur. There can be human error and things like that. These things will come to attention through the Department's own work, through internal audit or through external audit. The-----