Mr. John McCarthy:

One of the things - and again in terms of practical implementation at a local level, one of the colleagues may wish to comment - we obviously are mindful of any issues. I have talked about the issues around internal audit. It is on our radar too, to make sure that we keep an eye on that as to how that is being addressed within local authorities and to make sure it is addressed at a practical level.

One of the other reports, for example, a review on local authority housing management and maintenance, gave us important information on what was actually happening in terms of investing in the maintenance and management of the asset that was being publicly funded. It is informing work that is now going on to move towards a sort of a planned maintenance programme.