Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is my point exactly. If an issue that emerges in an ETB does not emerge across the board, there does not seem to be a mechanism for that to be identified. We need to examine these three issues nationally but there might be specific issues in an ETB that are not captured by the national audit. If the group does an internal audit in an ETB, there could be a significant problem but it might not be subject to the audit. When the audit committee makes a suggestion at local level, that is based on the flow of information. The committee is discussing the matter, however, because there was not a flow of information into the audit committee. I do not know how the Department can know if the audit committee does not receive the information about what it should be auditing.