Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand all that. The third speaker is my issue.

I thank the officials for attending this morning. I want to go back to the assets issue that has been raised several times, including tagging items and putting them on the register. Up to 2017, when a microscope, bailer or testing kit was purchased with Department money, no one put a sticker with a reference number on the item and entered the information on a spreadsheet. Is that the way the Department was doing business? It is a yes-no answer - I am under pressure for time.