Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome this letter. We asked for it and we got it. It is an outline and I welcome that. They do provide the information. They rolled it out in a pilot project in two big cities, Cork and Dublin, and there is an evaluation of that, which was referred to and I will not repeat that. We do not know operationally on the ground how many other hospitals it has been rolled out to and how it has been done.

There is a contract to solicitors, the Office of Legal Services implemented a new contract for the provision of corporate and operational legal services with nine solicitor firms. It is on the first page of their letter or page two of the document before us. I would like to know more about that. Will the Comptroller and Auditor General advise us on how that was done and what mechanism was used? It is stated in the letter, "the Office of Legal Services implemented a new contract for the provision of corporate and operational legal services with nine solicitor member firms nationally".