Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is the shame and embarrassment we shower on them, plus a visit to the Committee of Public Accounts, but nothing else happens. Cross-departmentally there should be sanctions against politicians for abuse of privilege. Equally, in terms of all of us who are paid by the public purse, if there are breaches there needs to be a demonstrative sanction from the public's perspective to give them a sense of ownership. I know it is not Mr. Deane's fault but I thought it was important to point out on the record that there are no official sanctions for breaches that, theoretically and in practice, have been shown to cost the people a great deal of money.

Does Accenture provide reports periodically? Is there a quarterly or annual report on how the system is going, where it is failing and how it needs to be improved? Does it give a breakdown of what it does in terms of X number of staff working so many hours at whatever per hour and so on.