Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. On the question of spending, I accept that a balance must be struck to ensure that we do not delay spending in critical areas to ramp up resources. At the same time, we must balance that against the requirement to ensure that we are getting value for money. We have seen scandals in the UK at the high levels of waste. Can the Minister outline what are the oversight arrangements within his Department to ensure that spending is occurring in the right places, we are getting value for money and there are some controls over that?