Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As regards moving to financial shared services, the underspend does not overly concern me because of the scale of the project but the NSSO will be getting into an area which is quite dynamic and many of the management processes with which the witnesses will be dealing will end up being dealt with by this committee if they fail. The responsibility as to how that happens and the break-off point between the organisation and the service provision by the NSSO needs to be very clearly defined because one could end up with a "who is blaming who" situation.

The service that is provided in the Chairman's constituency, which I opened while Minister-----