Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the Department's business case. In Mr. McKeon's statement he said a single business case document would have been preferable. At a hearing of the Committee of Public Accounts just last September the Comptroller and Auditor General said that would be a fundamental requirement for something of this scale and nature. In the document with which we have been furnished, Mr. McKeon has argued that 17 of the 19 elements were adhered to. However the elements that were not covered are fairly substantial. An assessment of organisational capacity to undertake a project and a benefits realisation plan are fairly big omissions. More interestingly, five other elements were only partially covered. Considering the two that were not adhered to and the five others which were only partially covered, it is fair to say that a lot was missing from the business plan. Mr. McKeon has recognised that it was not thorough. Would he still stand over what he has said was an adequate business plan, given that two elements were not complied with and five were partially adhered to?