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

Later today Mr. Watt will make an opening statement at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, in which it will be stated the Department monitors the actual spend against the monthly expenditure profiles based on information submitted by Departments to the relevant Vote section in order to keep track of the aggregate spend by each Department compared to the planned spend and that the Department does not approve expenditure at individual project level, which I accept. On the aggregate spend in the Department of Health in the period in the year to mid-November, when the issues were formally communicated, were there no indicators that there something was going wrong in that Department?