Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will come to that. We have opened up the door on the non-procurement. The question is about the adequacy in the round of the guidelines they operate. We have all seen the national stationery list that is provided to every school in the country. If they want to buy a ruler or a pencil parer they have to operate from the list, although exceptions can be made. It might be over-prescriptive and they might have taken a lazier approach of one size fits all for the whole country. As the Comptroller and Auditor General said, some of this might be far more effective if it was under each region.