David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The level of detail is important because, as I pointed out earlier, there is a lot of outsourcing in the public sector. We are outsourcing service delivery. It is our job to make sure all the money is spent wisely. In process terms, we need to be able to ensure we hold accountable officers to account but, because there is a service level agreement in place and the service delivery is outsourced, we get very general responses back to the effect that it is for the contracted organisation to account for how the money is spent. It should not be a matter for the organisation but for the Accounting Officer.

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