Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy may do so when he speaks again. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General about this. He might not have it at the tip of his fingers since he did not know the question was coming and he might have to give us a note next week. Are there any other Departments where amounts of this scale are handed out without a service level agreement being in place? Everything mentioned has been about the controls in place for RTÉ, its financial accountings, reportings and its regulator. Are there many cases of grants of this scale from Departments being handed out without some level of agreement in place? We have had the third level sector before the committee. The colleges and universities have to submit a programme of what they are doing to draw down grants. It does not interfere with their independence but one cannot just hand out €50 million or €100 million and hope that is the end of it and they do their job.