Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

The Minister's Secretary General signed off on a full review last year. I can read it out to the Minister. The Department doing an audit is not good enough. The NSSO are the guys who are supposed to be deducting and paying the salaries for civil servants. Billions of euro go through the office. This is crazy stuff. I do not understand how, on four completely separate occasions, you could make such mistakes. We are all humans. People make mistakes and will continue to make mistakes, but when you make mistake after mistake after mistake, I think there is a serious issue.

I want to move to another issue before the Chair intervenes, namely, these ghost houses in the Phoenix Park that have been talked about. Is the Minister familiar with the article in the media about these seven properties owned by the OPW that do not seem to be on any register or asset list? Has anybody in the Department located these properties?