Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Quigley is misunderstanding the thrust of my questioning. None of this is personal. I am not holding Mr. Quigley responsible for the fact that the system may need improvement. I am merely asking a few questions to determine my own gut feeling that it does. Clearly I feel from what I have been hearing today that it does.

Mr. Quigley has stated that no ward of court has ever lost any money and I accept that is what he has said, but I am not in a position to check that, because there is no oversight. I think in the interest of transparency and good standing of the Courts Service, we need a better system. The board might look at that and look at the potential, through legislation, to give a level of oversight to the Comptroller and Auditor General, the NTMA, and the Committee of Public Accounts.