Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)

I have a few questions myself. A review of the public procurement system is under way at the moment. The Minister of State will also be aware of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's recent report which was somewhat critical of the Government for what it described as "poor budgeting". The State spends around €19 billion per year contracting for goods and services but my concern is that we have very little oversight of that spend. This is something we will be discussing in more detail tomorrow. Does the Minister of State believe it is sufficient that the most up to date analysis that we have is the last OGP tendering and spending analysis from 2019? It seems to me that if a review of the public procurement system is not going to put in place the tools needed to at least have an annual report on the state of the procurement system, then it is a bit of a non-starter.