Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Local heritage or something like that. I understand the nature of them.

I wish to address the reason the Secretary General is before us, that being, Vote 34 and the financial statement. I will ask a few straightforward questions about the Department's accounts as I go through this document. In the year under review, the Department did not go through the proper procurement process in respect of €145,000 for temporary security measures around the hoarding erected at the Custom House. I could understand there being temporary measures for the first few weeks or months where the OPW had erected something because it was doing a job, but that is a large figure. Was the Department unable to go through a tendering process? I am on the bottom of page 4 of the appropriation accounts. Why is the figure so high? I can understand temporary security being required for a week or three, but why did that figure grow so large?