Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

That is certainly an exercise that could be done. Maybe we could ask the liaison officer to extract the information for each of the education and training boards for two or three years. My sense is that there is an improvement but it obviously takes time to deal with all the kinds of procurement that the education and training boards deal with.

I draw the committee's attention to the fact that I published a report, maybe two years ago at this stage, on financial management and reporting in education and training boards. That is something that the committee would like to examine. Maybe it would like to call on some of the education and training boards to give evidence on the matter, and also invite the Department, obviously.