Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is the same with the Department of Health. Every year a certain amount of funding is allocated, and it is never spent because the Department does not recruit sufficient staff. At what stage does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform ever take the Department to task over that, or is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform happy to take whatever is said and to allocate the funding? My concern is that it is going to be the same for this scheme. Where is the oversight and the assurance that it has provided value for money, and that the moneys allocated will be spent?