Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned non-compliance regarding national procurement guidelines. I am not sure which page of the report this is on, but if one looks at the table for 2012 to 2015, in 2012, for example, there were ten instances at a cost of €959,300, and if one jumps to 2015, there were 38 incidents at a cost of over €7.9 million. That is effectively €7 million more. Could Mr. Donnellan explain to the committee first of all what his understanding of non-compliance is and, second, why there is such a significant surge, for want of a better word, between those years? It is quite alarming. Why is that happening?