Chairman:

Does the committee agree with this proposal? Agreed. We could put in many items on this issue and stay with it for a while. These are three important items to be dealt with. We will ask that the items raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General and Deputy Mac Sharry be included in the work programme and will go ahead on that basis.

The next item to be is from Deputy Munster, correspondence No. R0013 from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, dated16 January 2020 providing information requested by the committee on the number of contracts that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines in 2018, the amounts for each and the reasons for non-compliance. Deputy Carthy has suggested the following-----