Mr. Tony O'Brien:

To refer back, and not to deflect the Deputy, the statement of internal financial control identifies the areas of weakness and what we are currently doing to address them. Every organisation will identify areas of weakness and seek to address them. In this context, we need to further strengthen the work of our compliance function. We are, as the committee knows, bedding down nine community health organisations, which will have a very significant responsibility around the management of contracts for services. We have virtually completed the management arrangements for those. A whole series of steps are being taken that will undoubtedly improve the compliance, value for money and safeguarding environments, but they cannot be done instantaneously or in one go. Even when we have done them all we will need to think of more things we have to do, because there will always be weaknesses in the system.