Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

People might think it is just about tidying up a register. A register should ultimately link into the financial statement. It should be possible to reconcile them. I would say to the Comptroller and Auditor General that if this is an issue across the board, we may have to take it up with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and we may want to have periodic reports arising from it. That schedule has no basis in current day reality. To say the cost of assets is €232 million and there is depreciation of €221 million suggests decades and decades are being included. It means nothing. Some of this stuff might be gone after five or ten years. I would say that very little of that figure could be tracked down in reality.