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

There is a figure of almost €12 million in assets. That is such a vast amount to fall under office equipment and other machinery. I understand it is different from most offices, but it is an astounding amount of money over which the Department had no governance.

Is a figure lodged on the balance sheet when the Department buys a new piece of equipment? I assume in the agricultural colleges the modern injectors for slurry are bought and people are not spreading slurry up into the air. Do we have any figures entered anywhere on the accounts for second-hand sales of depreciated assets? Such figures would show what we do with old machinery that is defunct.