Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The debate should take place in the Dáil. Our role is to highlight the issues, as is the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General, so that proper facts and information can feed a debate in the Dáil which would lead to a proper policy. That is the difficulty. I do not blame the witnesses for that. There has been no backup for the policy. It was an ad hocreaction to difficulties in the economy for a particular ideological reason. We are here today and we cannot say that there is good value for money.

I would like to ask practical questions. There is a significant change in respect of the 10%. Am I correct that ceiling is gone? Yes. So it has gone back to each Department. What was the price of the school which Mr. Ó Foghlú gave me this morning when I asked?